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Wherever water wells up in the vast, arid reaches of northeastern Iran, improbable pockets of green blossom in the hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground...
Exhibit A: Paris in the Month of August. A salesman (Charles Aznavour) becomes a summer bachelor when his wife and children take to the shore. Along comes the predictable blonde (Susan Hampshire) to scratch his seven-year itch. Her giddy giggle soon fills the sound track like a klaxon. The two go off on a picture-postcard tour of such out-of-the-way places as the Louvre, the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries, marking this second-rate souvenir "For export only." Aznavour's tragicomic twinkle shines through in such films as Shoot the Piano Player...
...Scratch was the cause of Wilt's itchy feet. Coming up to contract time, he demanded from the Philadelphia 76ers not his usual $250,000 yearly salary but a piece of the team. Philadelphia Owner Irv Kosloff was willing to pay him the salary, but balked at making him a partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor...
Besides giving instruction, computers may soon be used by graduate students as scratch pads. Working on a teletype a student could climinate hours of tedious hand calculations...
...ultimate test of the thesis will be the brand-new Walt Disney city in central Florida now being built from scratch on 43 square miles of swampy flatlands. The first nucleus, programmed to open in 1970, will in effect be a Disneyland East, and already 400 acres have been cleared and a system of dams, lakes and canals is being constructed. Linked to the fun city by monorail there will eventually be an experimental, radially designed city and a 1,000-acre industrial park. But the locomotive pulling them all will be Disney's Amusement Theme Park, a mecca...