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Pilot P. G. Stevens glanced aft at the four passengers in his Buhl Airsedan over Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week, then gave a lever a yank. Instantly steel arms gripped the front pair of passengers. A door alongside each flipped outward. The steel arms swung each passenger, chair & all, to the end of a davit clear of the ship. Automatic trips released the chairs and down they dropped, dragging after them parachutes which had been stowed into the bottom of the fuselage. Three seconds later the pilot yanked again and the other two passengers were swung...
Other scholarships awarded to first year law students were: Shelton Hale: to A. L. Dougan, of St. Louis, Missouri; Herbert Parker: to E. H. Kent, of Newtonville; Robert T. Swaine: to R. H. Lindman, of Santa Ana, California; Sidney Thompson Fairchild: to E. E. Ford, of New York City; William Cheney Brown: to G. H. Schwartz, of Sea Gate, New York; Harvard Law School Association of New York: to K. C. Davis, of Spokane, Washington; and A. M. Johnson, of Rosholy, Wisconsin; Faculty Scholarships: to B. S. Jefferson, of Los Angeles, California; J. W. Kelleher, of Berea, Ohio...
President Araujo. whose British wife is the former Miss Dora Morton, seemed disinclined to listen to reason. Revolutionary troops chased him to Santa Ana on the Guatemalan border where he signed his resignation...
...Michelson moved from their Chicago cottage to a Pasadena bungalow, where they were last week. A few miles to the south, near Santa Ana, was a mile long metal tube with a perfectly straight bore. Dr. Michelson had fixed mirrors at each end. Between the mirrors he could jiggle a beam of light. Because air modifies the speed of light and Precisionist Michelson disliked taking airy variables into his calculations, he arranged devices to create a vacuum in his tube...
...Newton and Einstein, Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, last week began his final contribution to physics. Again and again delayed?by illness, the collapse of delicate machinery, minute improvements in apparatus?Dr. Michelson stepped up to his corrugated steel, mile-long test tube stretching along the valley near Santa Ana, Calif., pressed a button, started whirling the tiny 32-sided mirror that is to determine once and for all the exact velocity of light...