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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:50 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin in their catchy-tuned film caricature Never on Sunday (1960), the fevered brow from which the current Broadway hit musical, lllya Darling, sprang...
...surprisingly, Kroyer's creations have since run a mad scientist's gamut. Synopal originally sprang from a Danish asphaltmaker's plea for something to give blacktop paving the high night visibility and skid-resistance of rival concrete. Kroyer promptly invented a white, synthetic, quartz-like crushed "stone"-actually a form of crystallized glass-to do the job. Seeing other possibilities, he has sold the stone as brewery and municipal water filters, made it into bricks to build 50 gleaming white villas around Denmark, in hopes of promoting them as a status symbol...
...Captain E. T. Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
...Brazilians can be sure of getting a car-though they can never know exactly how soon-without making huge down payments or interest charges. Actually, the technique was devised in the early 1950s by enterprising tailors who had been having trouble selling clothes. Before long, freelance car-buying consorcios sprang up, but these were often marked by fraud...
...Koran's language: the fact that this highly literate and eloquent body of precepts suddenly flowed from the mouth of an illiterate merchant in 7th century Mecca. The book of 77,934 words, memorized by millions for 50 generations, embodies much of Judaism and Christianity, which sprang out of the same awe-inspiring desert. Both simpler and more static, Islam postulates a fixed way of life ordained by God and transmitted to man through a series of mortal messengers (prophets), notably Adam, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Until Mohammed, man misinterpreted the message, but the Prophet revealed it correctly...