recreation hall and infirmary, and there will be plenty of DDT to rout the vicious flies which are one of the desert's plagues. There will be comfortable dwellings and mess halls, athletic fields and playgrounds. A man may forget what a tree looks like, but he'll have free movies and short-wave radio programs. He'll have playgrounds for his children, at least until they're of school age when they must be sent to Dhahran or Ras Tanura, to higher grade schools in Beirut or back home.

The Arabs certainly, through royalties to the government and education to the people, are bound to benefit greatly. Tapline and the companies which own it have proved once more that no job is ever too big for private industry, and presumably they will eventually receive the rewards commensurate with the risks they took. And western Europe is assured of the oil that was promised them, oil for the rebuilding of warshattered cities, oil for the military strength which is the great bulwark for peace.

Perhaps best of all is the fact that Tapline's great achievement is but the first step in a continuing program which will bring far more oil to the free world, and so develop greater sinews with which to withstand encroachment of the totalitarian plague.

Submarine loading lines at the Sidon Terminal