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Last week Andrew Sakacs died. By this time there was no doubt as to what killed him, or how he got his fatal infection. His was the first case of plague in southern California since 1936. But millions of flea-infested rodents constitute an ever-filled reservoir of the disease throughout the West and Southwest. The hopeful word from Lockwood Valley was that with the rodents already dead, the epizootic had burned itself out. Sakacs was a casualty only by rare and unhappy chance...
...four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly managed to ride his horse into the reservoir, the draining of which cut off the water supply for hours. Barbara, who "didn't know a tsp. from a Tbsp.," was far from home on the kitchen range. The cook she hired was touted as "marvelous with chicken," which was the whole truth-that...
About To Be Bilged. The Navy's Burke was born a farm boy near Boulder, Colo., with Baseline Lake (now part of the city's reservoir system) the nearest body of water. His father, Oscar Burke,* was a Swede, and his mother. Claire Mokler Burke, was Pennsylvania Dutch. As the eldest of six children, Arleigh worked hard on his father's 170-acre farm. But a country school teacher aroused his interest in the Navy and on June 26, 1919, the sturdy blond Swede from Boulder stepped off the old Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis railway (now defunct...
Valuable as SUNFED should become, however, it would form only a small drop in the reservoir demanded by a large scale program of world development. Conservative estimates put the capital now needed by under-developed nations at $14 billion per year. As basic projects lead to new demands for more material improvement in the next few years, the financial need is certain to skyrocket. A little more land and a little more rice will not satisfy peasants who have suddenly begun to sense that they can change their conditions...
After the body of Thomas L. Clark, M.I.T. '59, was found in a reservoir on February 17, Killian announced that the Institute would use "every means at its disposal to eliminate those excesses associated with hazings or initiations which might possibly lead to accidents which are physically or mentally hazardous or which are unbecoming to students of maturity and to an institution of this character...