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...with dust and fumes from many engines. A return convoy of empty trucks, Lambrettas and Citroëns going back to Hué for more refugees (and more business) was halted for an hour as the refugees descended through the pass. Drivers stretched out on straw mats on the asphalt, eating bowls of rice in the glare of their own headlights. Beside the road, some families who had walked the 45 kilometers from Phu Lap sat on straw mats around a single, thick red temple candle. A small kettle sat atop a tiny clump of burning sticks, boiling water...
Last year its output of goods and services leaped nearly 40%, to $25 billion -mainly because its oil revenues hit $10 billion. Among the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Venezuela stands out for its additional wealth in iron ore, asphalt, diamonds and hydroelectric power. In Caracas, a new skyscraper seems to rise every day, a new millionaire to appear every hour, and traffic jams to grow worse every minute. Drawing boards bulge with expansive economic plans, and the democratic, staunchly nationalistic President Carlos Andrés Pérez -whom everybody calls "Cap"-yearns to extend Venezuela...
There were plenty of those. Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, was a show-business small-timer in Los Angeles, a sometime model and actress in commercials. Her biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty...
...need was a drive-in church to serve this mobile culture. So Schuller rented a drive-in theater near Disneyland. Using established retailing techniques, he rang 3,000 doorbells looking for customers, bought strategic land near a freeway, put in enough asphalt for 1,400 cars, and erected a 90-ft. cross on top of a 15-story Tower of Hope...
...show, with all new music and lyrics, is saucy with black urban humor. Its talk is jumping jivernacular, its walk is a big-city strut, its dances have a blowtorch frenzy, and its songs range from a warm gospel glow to the rock beat of a riveter mining asphalt...