The stretch of coast between Del Mar and La Jolla was, at the time, a major aggregation site for juvenile white sharks, typically measuring 10 feet or less. (Torrey Pines is in the middle of this ...

And about 1,000 nautical miles south, the Soviets were readying medium-range ballistic missiles in the Sierra del Rosario ... Her legs were at eye level, as he tells it, and that was that.