Word: richters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible quake. Indeed, Los Angeles is continuing land acquisition in the Palmdale area for a new jetport. But a few officials are openly worried. Last week the California Seismic Safety Commission, urging Los Angeles to prepare for the worst, warned that a major earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale could kill 12,000 people, injure or leave homeless thousands more and cost $12 billion in property damage. Said Roger Pulley, a state earthquake preparedness official: "There is no sense of alarm, but we are treating the Palmdale bulge as a threat...
...Richter scale of undergraduate interest this news rates about 0.1 along with headline grabbers like balanced budgets at the Graduate School of Education...
Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 80 (David Oistrakh, violin; Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Angel Melodiya; $6.98). It was the perfect pairing, Oistrakh and Richter, on the most famous of the Brahms sonatas for violin and piano. This recording was made during a 1972 Moscow recital, 2½ years before the death of the great Soviet violinist. With loving attention to detail, at times unexpectedly puckish. Richter traced each phrase. No question, however, the show belonged to Oistrakh. Springlike and tender or with great gusts of Wagnerian passion, the music flowed...
...from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school. Anuta Sharrow was the oldest student at Chicago Musical College; Ida Richter began to write novels; Katya Govsky earned a certificate to teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late. "I was always happy," concludes Mollie Linker. "But if I would have had an education, with my mind, if I had taken the time, I probably would turn...
Rating highest on the Richter scale are Penn, Washington and Wisconsin, who will go for Crimson blood in San Diego Crew Classic next week. Penn, which Harvard has traditionally treated to annual trouncing, will be especially venemous owing to the new spirit of its excellent freshman crew, which won the Eastern Sprints last year...