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Santa Barbara School had long since moved down from the hills to a handsome $600,000 Spanish-colonial-style plant on a mesa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Its alumni, canvassing West Coast parents and public-school principals, had lined up a record number of applicants for the coming year. And Santa Barbara, with an endowment of $200,000, a staff of 13 and 61 students (tuition & board: $2,000), was about to launch a $125,000 building project which would make room for 125 students...
Voluntary Suspect. The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town. Happy Apodaca announced that she had been raped and murdered. No autopsy was held. Cricket was just sprinkled with lime and buried again. But Happy did take action-of a sort...
They were given 3,500,000 arid, mesa-studded acres in Arizona and New Mexico; a reservation which was gradually expanded until it was almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...
...Mesa, Ariz., 1,000 motorists jammed the parking lot outside station KTYL to watch the show going on in what the station claims to be the first drive-in studio...
Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...