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...twist their transmissions right over the top of mountains and other obstructions with out building repeater stations on top. They set up a weak, 15-watt transmitter 45 miles south of San Jose, Calif., on the other side of Loma Prieta, a 3,798-ft. peak in the Santa Cruz mountains. Then they pointed their transmitter's beam of 1,855-megacycle waves in the general direction of San Jose. When the beam was aimed too high, its waves shot off into space; when the beam was too low, its waves were lost in the mountainside. But when...
...year is 1931. A German passenger-freighter, the Vera (the name cruelly suggests "truth") sails from Vera Cruz, bound for Bremerhaven. It is. of course, a floating metaphor, no less effective because it is obvious: the "ship of the world, bound for eternity," as the author explains at the outset...
...some $5,000 because tuition is free and the students live at home. Foothill's money comes from its prosperous "college district," a 105-square-mile area that includes Palo Alto and is currently assessed at $512 million. The voters launched Foothill (in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains) with a $10.4 million bond issue, and now support it from property taxes to the tune of some $2,000,000 a year. Less than 25% of its'budget comes from the state as against 40%-60% for grade and high schools...
...cockeyed cults, local astrologers did their best business in years. Like their Indian colleagues, they predicted natural and unnatural disasters. One woman repaired to a vacant lot and pitched a tent furnished with a time capsule containing, among other necessities, a ten-dollar bill. A group from Santa Cruz fled to the Arizona mountain hamlet of Cleator, sure they had chosen one of the twelve places on earth that would be spared by the onrushing disaster. In Los Angeles, radio station KNX scheduled a 55-min. program on the earth's astrological peril. Said Producer Sydney Omarr: "People...
...four scattered locations across the U.S. last week, terror struck suddenly. ¶Floating half submerged in a tiny Fairfax County, Va., stream, the nude body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo...