Word: tejon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a friendly urbanity where his predecessors might well have shot the town to blazes. Under his father's no-nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour of workaday jobs at the Times, took over as boss when his father retired...
Twice in recorded history the fault has relieved itself. In 1857, a serious earthquake centered around Fort Tejon, north of Los Angeles. The second movement, in 1906, leveled much of San Francisco. Since then, according to Richter, the fault has been relatively peaceful. Minor California earthquakes have been caused by lesser faults...