Word: pacoima
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Like lion cubs unleashed, San Fernando Valley schoolchildren in the Pacoima area of Los Angeles burst out of classrooms one morning last week to test returning sunshine and the soft sea air that had swept away a week's foul weather. They found the world newly come alive, trees and stuccoed buildings glistening magically in rain-washed brilliance. Overhead, winter's deep blue sky throbbed to the scream of jets and the snarl of conventional piston engines. But to the San Fernando Valley's children, raised around Southern California's cluster of major aircraft plants...
...away from each other, the smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
Routine. In Pacoima, Calif., halted by city police after a four-mile chase during which he allegedly committed 18 traffic violations (including speeding, making an illegal turn and running through a red light), Motorist William J. Stickler, 24, demanded: "What's the matter? I always drive this...