Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David H. Collier Goleta, Calif...
...million worth). Peter Tobia's brother Ronald, who owns a separate company, Building Concepts, Inc., that builds finished dome-iciles in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, anticipates sales of up to 100 domes in its area for a total of some $3 million this year. Cathedralite Domes, in Aptos, Calif., reports that sales of kits are running at 60 a month (average price: $6,500). The company expects to gross between $3 million and $5 million this year and is planning to expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them...
...Having spent four years as the Defense Department's $42,000-a-year director of defense research, Malcolm Currie got six-figure job offers from three aerospace companies. He decided to go to Culver City, Calif., as a $180,000-a-year vice president in charge of Hughes Aircraft's guided-missiles projects. They include a $150 million contract to adapt the French-West German Roland antiaircraft missile for use by U.S. forces, that was awarded while Currie was in the Pentagon...
Died. Bertram D. Wolfe, 81, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party in 1919 who later became a scholarly, vocal foe of Communism; of burns received when his clothing caught fire at home; in San Jose, Calif. As a Brooklyn high school teacher, Wolfe was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and became a Communist organizer and teacher. In 1929 he traveled to Moscow for the Third Communist International, where he jousted verbally with Stalin, Trotsky and Molotov. This temerity won him two months' detention; Wolfe's disillusionment with totalitarianism soon followed. He turned to historical examinations of Communism...
Already, from Ithaca, N.Y., to Evanston, Ill., from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Livermore, Calif., empty elementary and now high schools are being converted to make room for shops, restaurants, arts workshops, Headstart programs, day-care centers, concert halls, studios, ballet schools, adult classes, seminars for unwed mothers, vocational training and housing for the elderly. Young doctors trained as pediatricians or gynecologists are increasingly transferring to the lamentably neglected area of public health. The transformation from growthmania to a less-is-more society will demand greater adjustments and some painful decisions. Nevertheless, demographers point out, a controlled population will allow...