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According to the oft-repeated Andean scenario of disaster, an earthquake jars loose a gigantic slice of glacier and rock from a jagged peak. The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam. This, in turn, sets loose what the Peruvian peasants refer to with dread as a huayco-a wall of water, rock and mud that can bury entire villages in the valleys below. In 1797 a huayco killed 41,000 Ecuadorians and Peruvians; in 1939 another took the lives of 40,000 Chileans...
...epicenter of last week's earthquake was located in the Pacific 42 miles west of Chimbote. But most deaths were caused by a huayco that emanated from the northern peak of the twin-pronged Huascaran in a spur of the Andes called the Cordillera Blanca, the highest mountain range in the Western Hemisphere. Apparently, a huge chunk of the mountain fell into chill Lake Yangwnuco and sent an immense slide thundering toward Yungay...
...Nick's hero(es) engage(s) in are of the drugs-and-bizarre relationships variety, but plus ca change -of the two main girls in our little boy's life, he meets one at his St. Paul's commencement and another at a Fly Club garden party. (A dramatic peak-such as it is-in the book comes when Flo tells Hal she can't afford to go skiing with him in Austria over Christmas, but will probably end up just going skiing with her family in Vermont. "But I'll manage." she promises...
...timely aid: a newly developed telephone transmission device that can convert frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light-years away, a favorite target of molecule hunters...
...black students instead of 90. along with about 25 Mexican and Puerto Rican students instead of 7. The number of women may also jump from the 60 this year. All these minority groups will demand a more sympathetic administration. The Business School is obviously far from reaching its peak in student discontent because the socialty sensitive students have just begun to fight...