Word: northerners
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According to Filipino myth, the earthquakes that regularly ravage the archipelago are caused by the exertions of a legendary Tagalog king as he tries to free himself from his prison cave. Last week the king bestirred himself anew. At 4:26 p.m. Monday, a massive temblor shook the northern island of Luzon. At its epicenter in Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, it measured 8.0 on the Richter scale (last month's quake in northwestern Iran registered 7.7). One of the worst-hit cities was the mountain resort of Baguio, 150 miles north of Manila, where dozens of buildings collapsed...
...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...
Getting on the water is also difficult. Most of the 22,000 slots for riding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon go to commercial companies. Individuals face a minimum waiting time of three to five years. The toughest permit: the one to traverse Northern Idaho's Selway River, a rafter's prize because it is navigable only a few weeks of the year. The odds of winning the pass...
...There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with...
...rich enough not to let something like the fear of fungus keep you awake at night. "Your court can disappear on you if you're not careful," says Tom Lufkin, a member of the game's hall of fame who has built his own court at his nursery in Northern California. Lufkin, who played for years on Samuel Goldwyn's two courts in Beverly Hills, recalls those glory years of the game when fierce rivalries between literary lions like Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once said, "My doctor...