Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They come pouring in by the hundreds every weekend, avaricious tourists with gleams of glory in their eyes. The onslaught created such confusion and congestion in tiny Downieville, Calif, (pop. 500), that Sheriff Albert E. Johnson had to halt the frantic activity for four days last month. The cause of the stampede: old-fashioned gold fever...
...upsets the small pests' neurological systems. They either flee or go into a trance-like state, refuse to eat and die. Brown has sold some 12,000 of his zappers, at prices from $350 to $1,000. Among his customers: the U.S. Marine base at Camp Pendleton, Calif., where two AMIGOS cleared a ten-acre parade field of gophers...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such...
DIED. Mark Schorer, 69, respected novelist, literary critic and biographer whose definitive work, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, became a bestseller in 1961; of a blood infection following bladder surgery; in Oakland, Calif...
Such statistics as exist seem to indicate that midwife-assisted birth is generally safe. During a test period in Santa Cruz County, Calif., 10% of the deliveries were at home by lay midwives. The infant mortality rate was lower than for the county as a whole (3.2 deaths, v. 15.1 per 1,000), though such figures may be misleading because predictably hazardous births were handled in hospitals. To support their claims, proponents of midwifery point to The Netherlands, where midwifery is widespread and the national infant mortality rate in 1975 was only...