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What do you say to a jowly, gravel-voiced man of 76 who thinks he can become a star on TV? If his name is Howard Jarvis, co-author of California's Proposition 13, you don't say no. On Sept. 26, Jarvis takes his antitax crusade to national television with the goal of convincing millions of viewers that personal income taxes should be reduced by 25% and $100 billion should be axed from the federal budget...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
DIED. Louis Prima, 66, jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer and bandleader; after lingering in a coma for three years; in New Orleans. With his wife, Singer Keely Smith, he staged a raucous nightclub act that made the couple Las Vegas headliners until their divorce...
...Friday, Aug. 11, acting on the advice of meteorologists, the trio lifted off from Presque Isle-and nearly crashed. Hitting a pocket of warm, light air, the balloon dipped sharply down over a gravel pit before recovering. By Monday evening, with all going well, the balloonists were 600 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with...
...construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown...