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Over the long haul, however, getting Jubail to work and function as a thriving industrial metropolis could turn out to be every bit as challenging as building the city. For one thing, Jubail's planned industries will be cranking out a prodigious supply of basic industrial products that many...
Shultz resigned as Treasury Secretary in 1974 to join Bechtel, one of the world's largest construction and engineering conglomerates. He became president the following year. Among its projects: the Hoover Dam, the Washington and San Francisco subway systems, 84 nuclear power plants, and the $20 billion Jubail Project...
A Boston pennant--now becoming increasingly likely--would be wonderful. But soon the flag would go on top of a big pile of sports laurels, deserved but not fully appreciated. A New York championship would quickly get engulfed by the news-and-excitement-mongering metropolis in which the Yanks play...
Perhaps the most surrealistic vision of how to cope with a nuclear war is offered by Mark Hacker, a graduate student in architecture at Princeton University. He has designed the ultimate fallout shelter: an underground city, complete with apartments and trolley cars, for 30,000 people. The metropolis would be...
The red-plumed inhabitants--you won't see more red anywhere this side of Santa's belly--of this dumpy metropolis have little alternative to their beloved hockey team for excitement, especially after the farm implement show closes down. For one thing, the bars shut their doors at 12:30...