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Beyond the sand bar, where we had walked the skiff over the shoals at the end of a languorous afternoon, the wind freshened suddenly ahead of a curtain of rain. The usually placid tropical lagoon hurled water into the skiff. The three of us were drenched. Willie, a local fisherman, grinned at the adventure. Our hulking captain frowned, grabbed a bucket and handed one to me. Brando read my fear. "Don't worry," he shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain...
Like ripples on a pond, the shock waves of Tagliamento quivered outward in a broad circle. In Venice, the campanile of St. Mark's trembled and the lagoon waters suddenly roiled. In Pisa, the Leaning Tower vibrated-but held its precarious tilt. On the Venice-Vienna railroad line, a train suddenly derailed as the tracks weaved out from under it. Shakes and masonry cracks were reported as far away as Frankfurt, Munich and the French town of Nancy...
...Came From Outer Space at 4, 7, and 10; Creature from the Black Lagoon...
...Buck Rogers-a 70-story silo of glass that is at once Atlanta's tallest building and the world's tallest hotel. Inside, guests enter a seven-story-high lobby big enough to hold a triple-level lounge, a forest of Ficus trees and a half-acre lagoon fed by fountains and a 100-ft.-wide waterfall. All the while, glass-enclosed elevators whiz like space capsules past the 1,100 guest rooms to a revolving rooftop restaurant...
More than half the waiting ships are loaded down with cement, 2.4 million tons of it. And that's only a part of the order. In all, Nigeria somehow managed to contract for 21 million tons of cement, about ten times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether...