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JERRY HEARD, 24, is sponsored by ten members of his country club in Visalia, Calif., who go by the name of the Heard Corp. A strapping 6 ft., 195-pounder with driving strength and putting finesse, he quit Fresno State College after three years to join the tour in 1969, has so far returned $113,280 on his sponsors' initial investment of $ 15,600. "I used to think winning $1,000 was a big deal," he says. "Now that I realize I can win much more than that, I'm not overwhelmed...
...even the ultimate earthquake that scientists have long predicted for California (see SCIENCE). But it registered 6.5 on the Richter Scale (highest ever recorded: 8.9), making it the most severe shock to strike the quake-prone area in nearly 40 years. Felt over 30,000 square miles from Fresno south to San Diego and east to Las Vegas, the earthquake caused at least $350 million worth of property damage. It killed 62 persons, the greatest number of U.S. earthquake casualties since Long Beach suffered 120 deaths in 1933. Only the fortunate timing prevented a fatality list many times greater...
WILLIAM F. KRIVOHLAVEK Fresno, Calif...
KARL E. SMITH, 54, is a shy, forlorn man who is almost marooned in his solitude. To find him, a visitor heads north from Fresno, Calif., and up into the Sierras, following a single-lane trail that winds endlessly along 9,000-ft. precipices. Finally, the traveler arrives at Florence Lake, and there is Karl, smiling nervously, waiting in rumpled cowboy clothes, wearing a three-day beard and smelling of horses. He helps you into his aluminum outboard motorboat and you putter to the other end of the lake. There you mount a horse, and three hours later, after climbing...
...come to $240,000, including $100,000 for broken windows and other property damage. Overtime work by repair crews, campus police, administrators and others brings the six-week total to $580,000. At some campuses, even bigger figures come even faster: last week fire bombs at California's Fresno State College destroyed a computer center valued at close...