Word: anaheim
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Yankee Mickey Mantle tells of leaving home in Dallas for the 1967 All-Star Game in Anaheim, Calif., barely arriving in time to run for the batter's box and strike out. He jokes that he was back in Dallas to watch the end of the game on television, to see Perez win it for the National League with a home run in the 15th inning. Mantle starts the story mirthfully but finishes it regretfully. The American League had enough good players, just not enough Pete Roses, hunkered down cheering on the dugout steps even after they were...
DIED. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 60, audacious faker and inspiration for the 1960 movie The Great Impostor; of a heart attack; in Anaheim, Calif. Although he never finished high school, Demara successfully masqueraded as a Trappist monk, college philosophy teacher, cancer researcher, deputy prison warden and Canadian naval surgeon aboard a destroyer during the Korean War. His surgical feats, learned from textbooks, earned public praise that, in turn, led to his unmasking...
...night long, the hot Santa Ana winds swept out of the Mojave Desert, gusting through communities south of Los Angeles at speeds topping 60 m.p.h. In Anaheim, just before dawn, the high winds blew down a power line, setting the fronds of a palm tree afire. Sparks showered onto the dry wooden shingles of a nearby rooftop, which exploded into flames. Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path...
...prodigy of prodigies may be Eugene Volokh, 14, of Los Angeles. A Russian emigre, he earns $480 each week by doing 24 hours of programming for 20th Century-Fox, while carrying a full load of courses as a junior at UCLA. This year Greg Christensen, 18, of Anaheim, Calif., could make $100,000 in royalties from a video game he developed that was bought by Atari. Other youngsters are waiting at the sidelines in hopes of catching up with these young entrepreneurs. Every Tuesday night, Scott Whitfield, 13, and his brother Shawn, 11, appear at the Menlo Park, Calif., public...
DeBerg comes from Anaheim, where the team retreated to practice when fierce rains soaked San Francisco before the Dallas game. The two friends met for drinks. "It was great to see him," says DeBerg, "especially after all the triumphs he's had. We just talked about the good times. I can see that he loves it out here. He bought a place in Skyline [a half hour south of San Francisco]. He's had some of the best of California so far." Joe agrees. "I do like California," he says. "No snow, no scraping windshields. In the wintertime...