Word: anaheim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharon Otten, 40, an apparel saleswoman in Anaheim, Calif, knows a good deal when she sees one. When she discovered an automobile dealer's coupon in the Orange County Yellow Pages offering $100 off the price of a new or used car, she was not content to let her fingers do the walking. Instead, Otten went from door to door, besieging relatives, friends and strangers to give her the coupons from their phone books. She even got one from her mother-in-law. When she had collected 91, she offered them to Dealer Scott Nowling after bargaining with...
Thinking that the public must be in great need of cut-rate sleuths, Deanna Short, a former policewoman, opened the Cheap Detective Agency a year ago in Anaheim, Calif. She borrowed the name from the title of a 1978 Neil Simon movie in which a bumbling Peter Falk spoofs Bogart. For $15 an hour, Short's 22 male and female investigators will shadow a wayward wife, track down a runaway teen or collar an embezzler. The agency has already had nearly 1,000 clients. When a Los Angeles retailer hired her firm to crack an internal theft ring...
...Anaheim, Calif. crowd of 64,406--a record attendance for a single AL playoff game--watched Angels' starting pitcher Tommy John hold the power-laden Milwaukee lineup to seven hits...
...Angels, Anaheim...
...like. They speculate who the next target of George's wrathful attention will be. Once it was Reggie Jackson. Now Tommy John has fallen from grace. Wistful, disgusted, the players sit in the locker room and talk pre-emptively of getting the hell out, of following Reggie to Anaheim, or anywhere. And it is still only the middle of August...