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...Washington last week reamed scores of U.S. Congressmen, some bent on fishing and swimming, most with a different objective. Faning out toward Bangor and Balboa, International Falls and Corpus Christi, they were hoping to find out what was on their constituents' minds and sniff the air back home during a ten-day recess that ends this week. At Fourth of July parades and picnics, at backyard barbecues and Little League ball games, the Congressmen spent long hours talking-and listening. What they discovered was a pleasant summertime surface, and beneath it some serious anxieties...
...William A. Dennis, 64, of Balboa, Calif., a geophysicist who contends that the soul is a center of cosmic vibrations. When the human body is alive, he says, vibrations from the soul give man the power to think and act. When the human body is dead, it is unable to accept or record these vibrations...
Hispaniola became Spain's first permanent colony in the New World, its key harbor and free port to all the Indies. From the Santo Domingo capital, Ponce de León sailed forth to Florida, Balboa discovered the Pacific, Pizarro invaded Peru, and Cortés conquered Mexico. It was the site of Latin America's first cathedral in 1514, its first university in 1538. Even then it was a land of violence, where men carried the law in their knives, and the captains from Castile thought nothing of shearing an ear from a disobedient Indian or letting...
...BAILEYS OF BALBOA (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation comedy about a poor family living on a houseboat in the luxury Balboa Yacht Basin-a kind of Beverly Hillbillies afloat-starring Paul Ford as Papa Bailey. Premi...
...DIEGO. In Balboa Park, the replica Globe Theater contains productions this summer of Measure for Measure. Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing. The first is notable chiefly because the actors wear codpieces, but San Diego audiences do not comprehend the play's intricate fornications. The second features a good performance by Charles Macaulay, a discovery from television. And the third is memorable because it was directed by B. Iden Payne, 82, a formidable figure in professional and bush theater for more than 60 years. His Much Ado is literal, straightforward, underdirected and onedimensional, which will indicate to any former...