Word: whitcomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Whitcomb one of the Chase recruiters, said last night he was not aware of the bank's involvement in South Africa. He added, however, "the bank will not lend to any group for something we see will support apartheid...
...really did not expect to break the record today," the ever-improving freshman Sullivan said. Kathy Whitcomb of Tufts, her only challenger, finished 26 seconds behind the winner's time...
...rain's my choice. James Whitcomb-Riley...
Honeycombed with literally thousands of geological faults, California has already had its share of earthquakes. But, warns a California Institute of Technology geophysicist, the state may soon be in for another. James Whitcomb, 35, said last week measurements suggest that an earthquake ranging in magnitude from 5.5 to 6.5 on the Richter scale could occur within the next year in an area 87 miles in diameter that covers part of Los Angeles and the San Fernando and Antelope valleys. It includes the portion of the San Fernando where a major upheaval killed 58 people in 1971 and part...
...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...