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While the flaky issue is subject to interpretation, the wildness issue is not. After a brilliant football and baseball career at Verdugo Hills High School in Los Angeles (the San Francisco Giants drafted him after graduation) Keyte came to Harvard a few pounds overweight and lacking in concentration. In 24 1/3 innings pitched as a freshmen, the southpaw yielded 26 walks and 14 earned runs...
...nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles-into Glendale and Burbank, Eagle Rock, and Verdugo City and Pasadena...
Last spring Teacher Cassell sent 21 sophomores out to survey Glendale on the premise that "a community is composed of a group of organisms living together in dynamic equilibrium with the environment." They discovered that the chaparral on the nearby Verdugo Mountains is all that keeps Glendale from being washed away by flood. Studying plants, they found those that best sustain this growth, e.g., black mustard. They analyzed the city water supply, found it pure but dwindling. Armed with petri dishes, they made bacteria counts in restaurants, groceries, the city jail, restrooms and hospitals. They measured noise, nutrition, recreation, garbage...
...valley a few school youngsters spotted the violent flash of orange and yellow flame in the sky. The shredding planes veered away from each other, the smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
...Phoenix, Ariz., police arrested Jimmy Verdugo on suspicion of drunkenness after they found him in a tree and heard his explanation that he was 1) looking for cigarette butts, 2) waiting for a bus, 3) looking for a girl to dance with...