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...killing spree-reminiscent of Charles Manson and his "family"-began five years ago in the Baja California community of Los Molinos, 169 miles down the coast from San Diego. There, Ervil's older brother, Joel, patriarch of the Church of the First Born, established a settlement in 1963 as a haven for polygamous Mormons. With Ervil as second in command, the community attracted more than 200 followers, nearly half of whom were excommunicated Mormons (the church banned polygamy...
...could deduct his flights back home. One time Paco heard the rich kid had gotten into a special seminar on the working class in America, which was more than a bit funny because Paco had always said the rich kid thought Manual Labor was one of his cousins from Baja California. So Paco asked him how he got in and the rich kid said he wore some ratty clothes he'd borrowed form his roommate, who was a working-class kid from Atlanta, and told the professor he was from the Spanish-speaking community. Paco bit his lip and then...
OSBORNE'S DESCRIPTIONS of sailing, childhood and adolescent play are good, and add some breadth to the book. By themselves, his narrative of a sailing cruise down the Baja coast or of the mental torment involved in sliding down a swinging rope in his grandfather's huge hay barn don't say much of anything, but provide pleasant interludes between the fights Robert has with his father...
Made from a cactus-like succulent grown in volcanic soil near the town of Tequila in Jalisco, tequila was probably the first distilled liquor in America; it was an Aztec tipple. Today its staunchest U.S. aficionados are in the West, where generations of visitors to Baja California have knocked back the musty-smelling liquor for a few cents a glass. It is no cheap shot north of the border; prized brands like José Cuervo 1800 and Sauza Conmemorativo sell for $10 to $11 a fifth. Nonetheless, at outlets such as Liquor Castle in Beverly Hills, which sells 20 cases...
Married. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin Jr., 45, second man to step on the moon as a member of the 1969 Apollo crew and later the victim of a nervous breakdown described in his autobiography, Return to Earth; and Interior Decorator Beverly Van Zile; both for the second time; in Baja California...