Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon California Institute of Technology's James Whitcomb, Jan Garmany and Don Anderson weighed in with more evidence. In a search of past records, they found a distinct drop in the speed of P waves 3½ years before the 1971 San Fernando quake (58 deaths), the largest in California in recent years. The P waves had returned to their normal velocity a few months before the tremor. Besides providing what amounted to a retroactive prediction of that powerful quake, the Caltech researchers demonstrated that it was primarily the velocity of the P waves, not the S waves, that...
...fact, the audience loved everything-as well it might. What other troupe can offer not only Kirkland's gossamer softness but the grand, regal style of Cynthia Gregory; the quiet, understated eloquence of Martine van Hamel; the boyish, leaping lyricism of Fernando Bujones; the courtly, steadfast partnering of Ivan Nagy and Ted Kivitt...
...wily animals so much they have adopted a let's-not-be-beastly-to-coyotes policy. After all, no Los Angeles coyote has been known to have attacked a human, while there were 52,000 dog-bite cases in the city last year. Says Dennis Kroeplin, the San Fernando Valley wildlife control officer: "We tell people the coyotes are very beneficial. They keep the rodent population under control." Besides, he adds, "the coyote is part of the West...
Baryshnikov has tried to make friends in the company by passing on as much as he can of his peerless training to beginning performers, by teaching his steps to young stars like Fernando Bujones, 20, or simply by breaking rehearsal tension with a rendition of show tunes on the grand piano...
...chosen Best Picture in 1969, it represented the accession of the big boys to the idea that "Art" and business could be mated without killing the baby. That is the new Hollywood, An old-timer confided to me one afternoon in L.A. that the only reason the San Fernando Valley was built was for use as a backdrop in an M-C-M musical. It was recently smashed to dust for Earthquake. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Oz orders Dorothy when she comes wise to his act. "I'm a very good man, it's just...