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Henna party, precedinga wedding, unites (Continuedfrom page 313) humming close friends-busy students and secre- when, 18 months and some 160 ships later, I tarieswho save the cosmeticfor specialoc- visited general manager Antonio Machado casions.They paintflorets with the paste Lopes at his office overlooking the dry dock, (below), which dries, leavinga design that longer than four football fields. A 300,000 lasts severalweeks. ton Norwegian supertanker lay like a HOLLYRECKORD beached whale as workers scrambled to grit blast and paint. Three screaming pumps, working at 1,500 cubic meters of water a minute, had dried the huge basin in two and a half hours-enough suction to empty an Olympic-size swimming pool in a minute. Nearby a crane lowered a repaired, 15-ton turbine rotor back into the engine room of the 508,000-ton tanker Esso Pacific. Ships from Greece, South Korea, and Iraq lined other quays.* "Bahrain, of course, is a logical location for our facility," Mr. Lopes said. "Where is *Noel Grove reported on supertankers in the July 1978 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. NationalGeographic,September 1979
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