Word: leandro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leandro practice, Dr. Martin has 90 patients aged three to 20 on methylphenidate, and he reports uniformly good results. One of his greatest satisfactions is hearing a mother say: "Now I can love this child again...
...native of San Leandro, California, Junta had come to Harvard on a full Navy scholarship. Because he was committed to an eight-week cruise each summer, Junta had almost no time to practice or enter tournaments. He was a strong natural athlete with incredibly powerful strokes, especially his serve and overhead. The summer before his senior year he had taken a week off from his job and without much practice had won the National Hard Courts Junior Championship. He had also won the New England Intercollegiates his sophomore and junior years...
...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
...tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force the gas through pores in the rock into the well casing, enabling producers to tap large...
...annual Hole-in-One Sweepstakes. Last summer Harrah's Club at Lake Tahoe, Nev., ran its own hole-in-one contest, and the winner had his choice of three prizes: a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, or "His and Hers" Jaguars. Al Reale, a restaurant owner from San Leandro, Calif., was the winner; he chose the Rolls. The U.S. Golf Association warned Reale that he would lose his amateur status if he took the car. That Al's no amateur...