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...same region in which last week's two quakes occurred had generated six temblors with a magnitude of at least 7.0 since 1911. Thus the latest shocks came as no surprise to seismologists, although the timing could not be pinpointed in advance. Californians living near the dangerous San Andreas Fault could only wonder when San Francisco or Los Angeles, long tagged as likely quake targets, might share Mexico City's fate...
...CRACK has appeared in the beseiged brick facade of Massachusetts Hall. The fault is a narrow one, but it is more than wide enough to engulf President Derek C. Bok's carefully argued and heretofore intransigent investment policy...
...Worse, most of the shows were about as sophisticated as a mud- trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling a story about middle- aged parents trying to instruct their...
...company as much as $200 million in compensation to victims' families. Last week Delta Air Lines, facing heavy costs from its L-1011 crash in Dallas, asked a U.S. District Court to require the Federal Government to share responsibility. The carrier contends that federal air-traffic controllers were at fault in the crash because they failed to warn the pilot sufficiently of bad weather conditions...
...management structure" at Hutton with fuzzy personal responsibilities. No one, for example, was willing to admit being the immediate boss of Morley, the cash manager. Wrote Bell: "Morley is now an orphan, seemingly lost or at least in limbo along with his corporate function." Even so, the investigator found fault with Lynch because "he should have been aware of potential abuses of overdrafting...