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During the past eight months, Northern California has been terrorized by a wave of mass murders and rapes. In Santa Cruz, a succession of coeds from the University of California campus and nearby Cabrillo College disappeared. They were found weeks or months later, decapitated. In all, seemingly random murders took the lives of 19 people around Santa Cruz, including a priest who was stabbed to death in his confessional booth. In the Nob Hill area of San Francisco, a number of Oriental women were assaulted, raped and cut up with knives. One was murdered; another barely survived 22 wounds...
...Move." The column is more than just folksy, for Ainsworth is a local-history buff who garnishes his prose with obscure tidbits of information and relishes exotic place names. Driving through Malibu, he can look past the cantilevered homes of the movie stars to a time when "Cabrillo in his voyage of exploration in 1542 saw the Chumash Indians in their settlement of 'Maliwu...
...Exciting show: Cavalcade of the Golden West-24 scenes in a pageant extending from Balboa's discovery of the Pacific and Cabrillo's discovery of California, through the discovery of gold in Sutler's Mill and Custer's Last Stand, to San Francisco in the all-too-gay Barbary-Coast Nineties...
Many another U. S. sculptor is being kept busy by WPA projects. Interesting among these is Henry Lion's 22-ft. figure of Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, cast for San Pedro, Calif., in cement and marble dust. In San Francisco, working for the Kuomintang, Sculptor Beniamino Bufano is finishing a stainless steel statue of China's onetime President Dr. Sun Yatsen. In Dallas, Texas Centennial visitors saw the work of Sculptors Lawrence Tenney Stevens and Raoul Jean Josset, who with 20 others were hired for the whole exposition job rather than for individual pieces...
...Cabrillo Beach, Calif., Stratonaut Jean Piccard, swimming under water, bumped heads with another underwater swimmer, was treated for cuts & bruises...