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Having grown outward, Los Angeles is now in the process of growing upward, a shift reflected in the thrusting towers near city hall and the modern, luxury high-rise apartment houses that now line the west end of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and Westwood. Still, for all the city's growth, there remain many areas of country living deep inside the city limits, where hills and valleys, treed lawns and wild animals abound. Patios, swimming pools-preferably in odd shapes-and private tennis courts are numerous enough to be taken for granted...
...legionnaires, rioted for four hours before they got tired and went home. Next day the riots erupted anew, bringing hundreds of steel-helmeted troops and cops into the streets, and forcing De Gaulle to restrict his tour of the city to a 15-minute whisk along the heavily guarded Boulevard de Gaulle...
...Angeles street corner last week, solicitors for Audience Surveys Inc. invited passers-by to a free "evening of entertainment" at a theater on Sunset Boulevard. The entertainment consisted of previews of two new television series, and all that the survey company asked of its audience was that each guest manipulate a rheostat-like dial during the show-twist it counterclockwise toward "very dull" or clockwise toward "very good" as the mood struck. On both coasts, CBS's Program Analyzer Unit conducts similar screenings, except that CBS's sample viewers operate not dials but buttons-pushing the green...
...scheduled for September airing on CBS. He is a large stockholder in the Riverside, Calif., International Raceway; he is part owner of a 470,000-acre cattle ranch near Yosemite National Park; and his company's real estate division owns more than 250,000 sq. ft. along Hollywood Boulevard...
...that exerts a strong appeal on just the sort of unstable people most likely to be injured by the drugs. Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, and others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the Messiah. A college dropout committed suicide by slashing his arm and bleeding to death in a field of lilies. Says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen, one of the country's leading LSD experts...