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About three miles from the epicenter, the symphony audience of 2,000 at Ford Auditorium live for several seconds longer. Indoors, the music lovers are puzzled by the sudden heat. Their bewilderment is fleeting: the blast wave arrives just as the brightness of the mile-wide fireball peaks. Those who do not die beneath collapsing walls are probably killed by rocketing shards of wood and glass...
...most active movement in the world," with an average creep of 11 mm (.44 in.) each day. But visitors expecting to see a gaping fracture in the earth's surface are usually disappointed. In fact, erosion and fill camouflage the San Andreas fault along most of its 600-mile length...
...refinery city of Abadan. The Iranians also launched a series of successful attacks on Iraqi positions along the southern segment of the border between the two countries. In addition, the Iranians have recovered a total of about 155 sq. mi. of land at different points along the 625-mile front...
Harvard's only other entrant in the meet was freshman Kate Wiley, who took 10th in the two-mile event with a time of 10:20, 4. Wiley's time pruned four seconds off Beckford's old University mark...
Harvard junior whiz Darlene Beckford proved herself equal to the meet's high calibre by winning the mile in an outstanding 4:38.3 showing. Teammate Jenny Stricker took the lead early in the race, with fast quarters of 65 and 73 seconds, but was passed with one lap to go by UVa. junior Jill Haworth. Beckford then bolted into the lead at the final turn to out lean Haworth at the tape by .2 seconds...