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...Tiburon, Calif...
Waterside living also appeals to the tenants of The Cove, located at Tiburon on San Francisco Bay, eight miles from the city. Here the Japanesy two-story buildings are bordered by deck and dock, with private craft tied up at the door. Most tenants work in San Francisco and commute by car and-in some instances-boat. Rents at The Cove range from $185 for a one-bedroom apartment, to $525 for three bedrooms. On the outskirts of Los Angeles, the Penthouse apartments hover over the Pacific shore line, offer tenants a beach, a Gay Nineties-style billiard room...
...scoffed at the warnings. The chief of the Haitian Red Cross went on the radio, angrily denying all danger. The next voice heard was the banshee howl of Flora. By now, the winds had accelerated to 140 m.p.h. Savagely, Flora cut a 75-mile gash across Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula, denuding the mountaintops, reducing scores of villages to rubble, and carving great rivers of red clay that stained offshore waters crimson three miles out. Radio monitors in Miami heard an unidentified operator report "terrible damage." Then he was blown off the air. Within Haiti all telephone and radio communication...
...Grub Ship," and would sail over to Oakland, Tiburon and Sausalito, which were unaffected by the earthquake, and bring in food and other supplies for my immediate family and many friends...
Strapping cannibals who communicate with each other by "modulated grunts" were reported to dwell on the Island of Tiburon, off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, by the Director of Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris...