Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kevin Riper '77 of Palo Alto, Calif. and Leverett House, says he is not headed for a political career. An Applied Math/Economics concentrator, Riper says he "wasn't originally interested in this field at all. But I saw the job listed in the OCS-OCL newsletter and decided, hey, this would be a good way to spend time off, as long as I would be doing something other than stuffing envelopes. I grew up in Palo Alto, a fairly wealthy suburb of San Francisco, then I went to Harvard--how 'elitist' can you get? I thought this would give...
Scientologists in the past two years paid cash not only for the Clearwater properties but for two buildings in New York, two in Los Angeles, and others in Boston, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Miami, San Diego and Riverside, Calif. Hubbard himself, by now an Operating Thetan, is about to sell his ship and establish a new land base in Ireland, while the worldwide scourging of engrams continues...
...advertising implies the woman was actually murdered, it is a hoax.) "If anything should be censored," says Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with Alfred Kinsey of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling porn fighters as Critic Susan Sontag, Historian Martin Duberman and Author Grace Paley demanded censorship and prosecution...
...Governments, for example, which includes various communities near the District of Columbia, found it could enter into a private pension plan and pay no more than it paid to Social Security, but employees could retire at age 60 instead of 65, with no loss in benefits. In San Jose, Calif., which left the system last year, city workers now contribute 3% less than they did under Social Security and enjoy benefits that average 25% higher...
...outraged and threatened to go to court to block the dropout. City officials may seek concessions from the unions in upcoming negotiations in return for sticking with Social Security. Elsewhere, employees have favored quitting. In March 1975, 14 of the 15 bargaining units representing the employees of Sacramento County, Calif, asked the board of supervisors to study alternatives to Social Security; three months later the county filed its intent to withdraw...