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  1. MILESTONES, Page 85      
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  3.     DIED. Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, president of the Bechtel Corp.
  4. from 1936 until 1960 and director of the worldwide construction
  5. firm's mammoth projects, from the Hoover Dam to a commercial
  6. boiling-water nuclear-power plant in Dresden, Ill.; in Oakland.
  7. Under Bechtel's leadership, the family-owned company managed West
  8. Coast shipyards during World War II and cultivated a lucrative
  9. relationship with the Saudi government, laying the trans-Arabian
  10. pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.