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Many young risk takers regard their accumulated wealth as a yardstick of success rather than as an end in itself. K.P. (Phil) Hwang, 45, emigrated from Korea in the early '60s and worked as a busboy and waiter while attending Utah State University. In 1975 he used $9,000 in family savings to found Tele Video Systems, a company that makes computer screens and keyboards. Although Hwang is now a multimillionaire, he says that his wife still fusses over utility bills and turns down the thermostat at home...
...fling at bank robbery. His Italian mother remarried, and George moved through a series of orphanages and boys' homes. "Let's face it," he says, "we were a welfare family." At 18, he struck out on his own, taking jobs as a house painter, Linotype operator, busboy and messenger. He began carrying a camera with him, learning about it and the city at the same time: "You get ideas while you're walking around." He taught himself darkroom techniques and started showing the results to people he met on his rounds. Some offered to buy. Five years...
...first account, Philip Bruce Cline, 23, a busboy at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, was a hero. He was working his way down from the 29th floor in the east wing of the 2,783-room hotel, the nation's largest, picking up room service food trays from hallways. When he reached the eighth floor, he saw flames "flickering on the wall" in the elevator lobby. He tried to fight the blaze, then ran down the hall banging on doors to alert guests. But the fire raged out of control for more than an hour, killing eight people...
...placed in a home for juvenile delinquents when, his father said, "I was overseas, and the wife couldn't handle him." Cline was under psychiatric care in California from 1973 to 1975, then began to drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires-at the Royal Americana in December and the Dunes in January -that are believed to have been deliberately...
...Football is a family thing," the blond-haired Ohioan remarked after knocking off from his job as a busboy at the Faculty Club. "My brother made all-conference at Denison University and my dad played some at Miami of Ohio, so I guess I sort of expected myself to play...