Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the aid of Rockefeller Foundation funds, Hodges and other scientists from the University of Arizona and from Mexico's University of Sonora have designed and built an integrated, diesel-electric-based system that supplies electrical power, makes sea water drinkable, and contributes to lush vegetable growth near the small (pop. 5,000), arid fishing town of Puerto Penasco. Heart of the system is a 60-kw. Caterpillar diesel generator. But unlike other diesel-powered systems, in which about two-thirds of the fuel energy is wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated...
...another. "I wouldn't have believed they would listen so intently to each other's work," he says. "They listen and are moved." In turn, Schulberg has finally earned their acceptance and admiration. "At first people were skeptical as to why he was down here," says Sonora McKellar, one of Schulberg's regulars. "But it's different when you find that a person is dedicated and might well be somewhere else making money...
...Mike." The family name was originally Goldwasser, and it belonged to Barry's grandfather, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1852. "Big Mike" first ran a saloon and general store in Sonora, Calif., eventually moved on to the Arizona Territory, where he peddled supplies to mining camps and took his chances in the wild country. He managed to survive-though an Indian once put a rifle ball through his hat-to establish a thriving retail clothing business...
...body of corruption to excite disgust and detestation in the reader. The reveries of Cruz take in a cruel, gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets his old renegade die, impotent...
...Michel Goldwasser emigrated at the age of 27 to England, where he married and Anglicized the family name. Lured by tales of the California gold rush, he shipped out for San Francisco in 1852 with his younger brother Joseph, sold whisky and hard goods to the mining camps of Sonora...