Word: prieta
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...around obstructions, the IBM engineers calculated that they could twist their transmissions right over the top of mountains and other obstructions with out building repeater stations on top. They set up a weak, 15-watt transmitter 45 miles south of San Jose, Calif., on the other side of Loma Prieta, a 3,798-ft. peak in the Santa Cruz mountains. Then they pointed their transmitter's beam of 1,855-megacycle waves in the general direction of San Jose. When the beam was aimed too high, its waves shot off into space; when the beam...
...people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared early one morning in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, babbling that she had escaped from her kidnapers and wandered all day and night in the desert heat. But her shoes were unscuffed, and she was neither sweaty nor thirsty after her ordeal. Nor was she ever able to point out the shack in which she claimed to have been imprisoned...
...tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
...Angeles. No one saw her come out. For over a month the nation's front pages were frenzied. The Angelus Temple's faithful paraded the beaches mourning loud & long. A girl committed suicide and a diver was drowned. Then, 36 days later, Aimee reappeared in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz. She had, she said, been kidnapped, but how or by whom nobody could find out. There were suggestions that Sister Aimee was the veiled woman who had been seen at Carmel, Calif, with one Kenneth Ormiston, the radio operator at Angelus Temple...
...dawn the fuses with crimped fulminate of mercury caps attached were found on the north side of the railroad right of way. Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...