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...Bahrain. From that early association, a long-lasting-and profitable-Saudi friendship flowered. In 1948 a team of Bechtel engineers mobilized an army of 5,000 local laborers to build the greater part of the 1,068-mile-long Trans-Arabian pipeline. Bechtel's swift execution of the mammoth job, as well as its skillful handling of local labor, added enormously to the firm's Middle East reputation...
...Americans think the eruption of Mount St. Helens ended the U.S. volcano threat, they may be in for another shock. California's scenic Mammoth Lakes ski resort area, a few miles east of Yosemite National Park, has been jolted by a series of moderately strong earthquakes since 1978. At first seismologists of the U.S. Geological Survey thought the only risk was more quakes. Now they suspect that there may be a danger in the area of a volcanic eruption...
...declaring a "potential volcanic hazard"-the lowest of three possible levels of alert-the U.S.G.S. emphasizes that an eruption is not certain. But the volcano watchers note that there is geological precedent for a major blowup in the region. Mammoth Lakes lies inside a huge 10-mile by 18-mile caldera, or depression, called Long Valley. It was created 700,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption probably more powerful than any the earth has seen since...
...more and more companies are jockeying for a slice of Osborne's success. Last week, at the mammoth National Computer Conference in Houston, at least a dozen U.S. and foreign manufacturers were hawking portable computers that fit on the decks of pleasure boats, under airline seats, into attaché cases-even in the palm of the hand. Four of the new machines were Osborne imitations featuring built-in video, detachable typewriterlike keyboards and luggage-type carrying handles. While several models improved on the Osborne's eye-straining 5-in. screen, only one-manufactured by Non-Linear Systems...
...Shrenk suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...