Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rick Husky Beverly Hills, Calif...
...homosexuality ("Don we now our gay apparel" no longer means what it did in Christmases past), even a card for my friends who are pot smokers showing a marijuana plant. Feminists may send "winter solstice" cards instead of Christmas cards. Offered by the Page One bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., the cards feature mother earth themes to counter Christianity, which some feminists regard as oppressive to women...
Irvine Co. owns an 80,000-acre ranch that makes up one-fifth of Orange County, Calif. There the company has been building houses and factories grouped into developments that are remarkably successful examples of comprehensive urban planning. It must be put up for sale, however, because the James Irvine Foundation owns the controlling interest. Under federal tax law, the foundation cannot control an enterprise that aims at making a profit-and Irvine Co. not only tries to turn a profit but clears a rather tidy one. Mobil Oil Corp. offered $200 million in May, setting off a frantic bidding...
Died. Herbert Van Walker, 77, hard-line California superior court judge who sent 19 men to death row in 16 years on the bench; following a heart attack; in Newport Beach, Calif. Avuncular in appearance, Walker reduced just one of his death penalties to life imprisonment. However, only one of the men he sentenced to die ever went to the gas chamber: Convict-Author Caryl Chessman, whom Walker ordered executed in 1960 for a robbery and rape committed in 1948. The best-known survivor of a Walker death sentence is Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan...
...iconoclast who loudly lacerates the world with mockery. His friend and foil is Rich Bone, a handsome and once successful corporate executive who sees life's flaws so clearly that he has retreated to become a sort of passive picaro. Bone bums around the beaches of Santa Barbara, Calif., lives off a succession of women and wearily hopes that "something will happen. Something will change...