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Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over...
...merely preoccupied with its past, the eminently practical Latter-Day Saints Church last week was planning solidly for its future. Before the Federal Communications Commission was an application for a Mormon short-wave radio station, to be built on the flat terrain, favorable for transmission, near the Great Salt Lake...
...days Northwest's license to carry passengers because of failure to maintain equipment up to required standards. This was a slap in the face for Northwest Airlines, which until this crash due to a structural failure, had the enviable record of eleven years' flying over difficult mountain terrain without one fatal accident...
...slightly different from American's facts. Mr. Patterson began by pointing out that the Rocky Mountains extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer miles of mountainous terrain than the currently advertised 'Low Level Route.' Based on a normal airway width the highest point on United is lower than that on the other advertised route.* But," he added hastily, "what of it? United's route has as much sunshine and less annual precipitation, but again...
...Smithsonian Institution, has conducted expeditions to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to find traces of prehistoric migrations from Asia, has brought back carloads of material from hundreds of village sites. Far from digging at random in the hope of uncovering such a site, when he enters new terrain Dr. Hrdlicka can now spot one as far away as he can see. What makes this scientific detective work possible he last week explained in Science...