Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solana Beach, Calif...
...follow an arcing, 460-million-mile path for more than ten months before it goes into orbit around Mars in mid-June 1976.* The spacecraft will circle the Red Planet for two weeks or more, reconnoitering landing sites and radioing information back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif...
...Haldemans still maintain a $185,000 house in the exclusive Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, and have been spending the summer on an even more exclusive island in Newport Beach, Calif., where his wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
Died. Gary Sanders, 25, popular pro golfer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buena Park, Calif. At 16, Sanders won the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, then turned pro after college and earned $22,665 during last year's tour, which included a victory in Florida's Amelia Island Open. He was competing in the Western Open in June when he learned he had lymph-gland cancer, which was thought to be unrelated to his death...
Died. Carl O. Sauer, 85, American geographer; in Berkeley, Calif. As chairman of the geography department of the University of California at Berkeley from 1923-54, Sauer impressed on his students the need to find "humane ways" to use earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly...