Word: jacinto
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Mount San Jacinto has always been merely the inconvenient hulk that cuts off the January sun at 3:30 p.m. and sends swimming pool loungers shivering toward the bar. But previously inaccessible Mount San Jacinto is soon to be a resort area itself. The world's largest passenger-carrying tramway will lift vacationers from oven-like Chino Canyon to a winter-temperature summer resort some 5,900 ft. above-from the California desert to the California Alps in 15 minutes...
...tramway's cars (one going in each direction) will hold 80 passengers, who might not want to risk a ski run down San Jacinto's craggy sides, but can at least enjoy a 100-mile view of the valley...
Falla conceived of La Atlantida as his life's masterwork. a Spanish Parsifal, throbbing with epic Wagnerian themes and massive Wagnerian thunder. He took his title and story from the Catalonian epic by Jacinto Verdaguer-a tale of the lost continent of Atlantis, destroyed for its sins, and of Spain preserved to export Christianity to the New World...
...industry-wide basis, U.S. publishers pay their shop crews for 22 holidays. In various parts of the country these include Jefferson Davis Day, Pioneer Day, San Jacinto Day, and, on some papers, the worker's birthday...
...next foreigner was Yanqui Sam Houston, who defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and won the independence of Texas, which nine years later joined the U.S. In 1846 and 1847 the U.S. sent Generals Zachary ("Old Rough and Ready") Taylor and Winfield ("Old Fuss and Feathers") Scott into Mexico to defeat Santa Anna again, seize all the land from northern California to Texas...