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...nearby fishing village of Al Jubail seven miles to the south on the Persian Gulf. Within twelve months, enough trailers to house 13,000 workers had been plopped onto the sandscape. A 13,000-ft. runway, capable of receiving the largest of wide-body aircraft, was built from scratch in less than a year. By 1980, 5 million gal. of fresh water daily were flowing ashore from a Japanese-built desalination plant that rose six stories above the warm Persian Gulf waters...
When you screen out that much sunlight, that's an important event." El Chichón's importance caught scientists by surprise. Located in an impoverished area of southeastern Mexico, where the Zoque Indians scratch out a living by farming the volcano's slopes, it erupted with much less fury than Mount St. Helens and gave off only a fourth to a sixth as much debris as its Yankee rival. But as Volcanologist Wendell Duffield of the U.S. Geological Survey notes, "At Mount St. Helens the barrel of the cannon was pointed laterally. At El Chich...
...first four days. Only one film, Superman II, has ever opened better, and that was because it was shown in 458 more theaters. Playing in 939 houses across the U.S., III has set a new Hollywood record by averaging $17,056 a theater in that period. Movie moguls still scratch their beards, wondering how the Italian Stallion managed to connect with such a haymaker. To Rocky's creator, that secret punch is easy to explain: he put satin trunks on his autobiography...
Although rumor has it that he has become a millionaire in his own right (Farkas won't confirm or deny), he didn't exactly start from scratch. Being the son of Robin L. Farkas '54, chairman of the board of Alexander's department stores, didn't hurt either. Apart from any financial assistance in his various business ventures, a "very, very special relationship" with his father has helped to create the mind-set necessary for Farkas' particular version of success...
...city has occurred to Schubert. Although the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has shown some interest in him, and he has "a few contacts" at New York University, home of a prestigious composition program, Schubert knows that he will have to start very much from scratch. "There are people who are going to help me, but no one who'll produce a show for me," he says...