Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tony van Renterghem Malibu, Calif...
Saratoga, Calif...
...Anaheim, Calif...
DIED. George Papashvily, about 80, undauntable Russian emigrant who turned his scuffling initiation to America into a humorous bestseller, Anything Can Happen; in Cambria, Calif. His father in Soviet Georgia taught him swordmaking, but Papashvily washed dishes and raised chickens after reaching Ellis Island in 1922. His U.S.-born wife Helen put his misadventures to paper in 1944, and four more books followed. Papashvily also found success as a sculptor of animals...
...fairness to the manufacturers, repairers point out that many consumers do not read instructions or take care of their appliances. Mrs. Ellen Rittle, who has run a repair center in Burbank, Calif., for 25 years, says that toasters often contain such detritus as pennies, spoons, sunflower seeds and cockroaches...