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...hobbyists, sportsmen, intellectuals, health addicts and a host of other categories. Consider such esoterica as a journey to Dracula's lands in Rumania for those fascinated by the supernatural or the upcoming Pacific excursion led by California scientists that will track and observe schools of whales in Baja California's Scammons Lagoon...
Life in Tijuana has moved in cycles. During the Prohibition era, the Baja California town glittered as a south-of-the-border oasis for thirsty Hollywood movie stars and horseplayers at Agua Caliente Racetrack; Alex and Caesar Cardini invented Caesar salad one evening to feed the throngs at their beleaguered restaurant. But by World War II, U.S. servicemen in California came to know Tijuana as a bawdy border appendage of San Diego where sidewalk hustlers peddled a startling variety of sexual activities and mainstreet bars offered grinding nudes within tactile distance of the audience. The town's foul...
...detective (who, incidentally, is handicapped by having artificial hands) gets a helicopter and cruises along the Gulf of California, looking for a blue Volkswagen truck in which Christian is supposed to be riding. Eventually the detective spots the truck parked at a tent camp in a remote area of Baja California. He lands at a nearby town, organizes a detachment of Mexican police and raids the camp. Christian, who is hiding behind a pile of clothes, tries to make a run for it. In a sleeping bag is a naked 21-year-old girl, who refuses to give her name...
...gray whale, once considered virtually extinct, is alive and multiplying in the lagoons along the coast of Baja California. That news was reported last week by Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Hubbs credited the whale's comeback to Mexico's ban on hunting and its designation of a large lagoon as a whale sanctuary. According to Hubbs, four other supposedly doomed species are also winning the fight against extinction. The northern elephant seal and the Guadalupe fur seal are both doing well on the tiny remote island of Guadalupe off Baja. The sea otter...
...lost the use of both legs as the result of a spinal operation. In Miami, Mrs. Ellen Roll won $1,500,000 in damages for a postoperative drug dose that left her permanently disabled. In addition, out-of-court settlements of more than $100,000 are fairly common. When Baja Marimba Band Guitarist Ervan Coleman died in Los Angeles following a supposedly routine ear operation, for example, his widow sued the anesthesiologists. They settled...