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Last week, on Friday, the traditional Arab day of rest, the people of El Asnam again felt the earth move violently, not once but 20 times. The initial tremor registered 7.5 on the Richter Scale, which was slightly lower than the 7.7 recorded in September 1978, when 25,000 people were killed in northeast Iran. In El Asnam, the city was again laid waste, along with many of the farmhouses and villages in a 25-mile radius. Eyewitnesses estimated that 80% of El Asnam was destroyed; the Algerian Red Crescent initially reported that perhaps as many...
...with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...
Screenplay by W.D. Richter...
...impending eruption, the tremors only added to what might be called a case of tectonic fever on the West Coast. Hundreds of small earthquakes shook the Sierra Nevada in central California, causing landslides and some injuries. At least 100 of the quakes measured above 4.0 on the Richter scale and three reached 6.0 or higher, levels at which there would have been more widespread destruction in populated areas...
Many Nobel winners are taking a dim view of Graham's project. Stanford's Burton Richter (Physics, 1976) reports that his students are beginning to ask whether he supplements his salary with stud fees. "It's somewhat weird," he says. "What they are trying to do is create an intellectual superman, and selecting winning Nobel Prize scientists is not the way to do it." Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964) of the University of California at Berkeley dismissed the project as "snobbish," and the Salk Institute's Dr. Renato Dulbecco (Medicine, 1975) disqualified himself. Said...