There doesn't seem to be a favored beach along that seven-mile stretch; they're all good.

Molten metal still flows in a handful of buildings on the seven-mile stretch of the Ohio River bank here where a sprawling Jones & Laughlin steel complex once employed as many as 17,000 workers.

"He told me it was going to happen today," she said while watching her husband on the stage's final seven-mile stretch, a rapid descent from the top of the Col de Joux-Plane into the village of Morzine.

But in recent months, Mr. Taylor - along with other township and state officials - has taken to imagining this seven-mile stretch of riverfront real estate transformed by $1 billion in new development.

Fish, birds and man come together on this salmon-rich, seven-mile stretch of the Skagit, which empties into Puget Sound.

A path from the road led to the beach, and we walked back along the water feeling that it had been well worth the trek to see the other end of the seven-mile stretch of Elbow Cay.

LEAD: A seven-mile stretch of Interstate 90, the most expensive segment of freeway ever built, will open here Sunday.

Seattle, using Federal dollars, completed Interstate 90, the most costly seven-mile stretch of road ever built at the time, $1.5 billion.

On a recent Thursday, covering the seven-mile stretch from my home in Wilton to the Merritt Parkway, shortly after 5 P.M., I counted 18 one-headlamp cars.

The seven-mile stretch will be closed to vehicular traffic and cyclists will be serenaded in front of the County Center by the Dixie Dandies.