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Whitcomb is using an experimental earthquake-prediction technique developed in the Soviet Union and successfully employed by Columbia University scientists to predict a small temblor in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. The method involves measurement of variations in the velocities of sound waves traveling through subsurface rock. While no one, from scientists to civil defense authorities, is dismissing Whitcomb's prediction, his data will come under intense scrutiny by experts of the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council within the next two weeks...
...resort country round Big Moose, N. Y. (population about 150), awoke one morning last May to find they had some new neighbors. In the predawn hours, a band of Indians had taken over a 612-acre former girls' camp, now a forest preserve in New York's Adirondack State Park. They claimed the camp land and, thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose's white settlers...
...earth tremor, which occurred in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was forecast by Yash Aggarwal, 33, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Aggarwal and another Lament scientist, Lynn Sykes, began to study the Blue Mountain Lake area two years ago, intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks...
...Crimson extends condolences to the family of Danny D. Porter '72, a former photographic chairman of The Crimson, who was killed while camping in the Adirondack State Forest on Saturday. He is survived by his stepfather and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Nauman, and his sister, Janny Nauman, of Mansfield, Ohio...
Developers are aghast. Their most frequent complaint is that the state government should not become so much involved in any individual's private business. But Vermont intends to go even farther; next year its legislators will consider an Adirondack-style plan to order and shape future development, and thus save the state's greatest resource: unspoiled land...