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...Cleaners proclaimed the establishment to be "cleaners to the royal family." But the business is not near Buckingham Palace or, for that matter, in Britain. Opened last May by Diane Storoni and Gennaro Marinelli, Lady Di Dry Cleaners is a small chain of four shops in the San Diego area...
While few Californians are likely to believe that Prince Charles and Princess Diana send their dirty linen to San Diego, the ads were enough to offend Anglophiles in the area and draw two letters of complaint from the British consulate-general in Los Angeles...
Some of the protests have taken on ugly anti-Semitic overtones. Three weeks ago, the Rev. R.L. Hymers Jr., a Christian extremist in the Los Angeles area, staged a demonstration near the Beverly Hills home of MCA Chairman Wasserman, who is Jewish. An actor portraying Wasserman stepped repeatedly on the bloody back of an actor dressed as Jesus and carrying a heavy cross. An airplane meanwhile flew overhead trailing a banner that read, WASSERMAN FANS JEW-HATRED W/TEMPTATION, and a crowd chanted, "Bankrolled by Jewish money...
...daily selection of newspapers from around the world rivals that of any five-star hotel in London, New York City or Tokyo. The papers are bought and avidly read by a rambunctious colony of 200-plus British and Commonwealth expatriates who make their homes in Lantana and the surrounding area...
Among the most popular riding sites in the West are the Canyonlands of Utah, where trails stretch for miles through spectacular rock formations. The crowds are growing so fast that park officials have had to enact a reservations-only system for the area's campsites. "It's hot and dusty, but it's the most spectacular riding I've ever done," says Doug Emerson of Boulder. "You expect a dinosaur or John Wayne and a bunch of bandits to come out from behind the rocks...