Word: richter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...informal Richter scale of movie terror, Play Misty for Me registers a few gasps, some frissons and at least one spleen-shaking shudder. A good little scare show, in other words, despite various gaps in logic and probability...
...Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven on the Richter scale. But neither the earthquakes nor tidal waves that opponents of the test had feared in fact happened...
...Then there's this kid Belson. He's just 27, but we think he'll go a long way." As for defense lawyers, the buffs' favorite by far is F. Lee Bailey. "When he sums up, he doesn't even have notes," says Louis Richter, 67, a retired clerk for American Express. "He does it all from his head. Oh, he's good. He's the best there...
...Right. Coming to court daily has become a way of life for most of the courtroom buffs. "Many of the men are widowers," says Richter. "They seek companionship here." "The main thing," adds Morris Asher, 73, a former machine operator, "is that you get up in the morning and have a place to go. If a fellow we know doesn't show up, then we get worried." Some buffs achieve the ultimate: defense attorneys and prosecutors actually seek their opinion, not on legal strategy, but on the reactions to be expected from judges and juries. According to Salvadore Pampinella...
Lucky Timing. It was not even the ultimate earthquake that scientists have long predicted for California (see SCIENCE). But it registered 6.5 on the Richter Scale (highest ever recorded: 8.9), making it the most severe shock to strike the quake-prone area in nearly 40 years. Felt over 30,000 square miles from Fresno south to San Diego and east to Las Vegas, the earthquake caused at least $350 million worth of property damage. It killed 62 persons, the greatest number of U.S. earthquake casualties since Long Beach suffered 120 deaths in 1933. Only the fortunate timing prevented a fatality...