Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police arrested a Mexican-born farm-labor contractor named Juan Corona, 37, married and the father of four daughters, but they were by no means sure that they had come to the end of the trail of bodies. They evidently discovered some of the corpses by checking out X marks on a crude map found in Corona's Bible. "I don't know where it's going to stop," said Sutter County Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. "We'll keep digging until we quit finding bodies." That could take some time. In Tehama County, 70 miles...
...Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity. The murders were apparently executed systematically over a two-month period, so it was not simply a matter of a man gone suddenly berserk. Sheriff Whiteaker said of Corona: "We are sure that he committed the murders...
...There was an unusually well-structured and picturesque corona for this time in the solar cycle," Edmond M.Reeves, lecturer in Astronomy, commented yesterday...
...this reason, the corona had a more spectacular ray pattern than might be expected at this time in the cycle...
Another group, under Winfield W. Salisbury, lecturer in Astronomy, will take television pictures of the corona to study the light waves orientation or polarization and calculate variations in the sun's magnetic field in the corona...