Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage bumpiness, Cheryl Tiegs' life seems to have been uncommonly secure and successful from the beginning. The warmth and strength she now shows so easily to the camera is clearly to some degree a reflection of what she knew as a child in Alhambra, Calif. Theodore Tiegs, an undertaker, was a steady, thoughtful, attention-paying father, says Cheryl, and her mother, Phyllis, was a laughing, cuddling person. Phyllis worked in a flower shop when her two daughters were growing up, and Vernette, four years older than Cheryl, took care of her little sister. The Tiegs family went to Quaker meetings...
...White, assistant director of the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday the organization hopes to sponsor at least 11 students next month and several more during the summer in volunteer jobs that will range from working with a security analyst in Boston to assisting a city planner in Palo Alto, Calif., to spending a few weeks with a science fiction writer in Ireland...
Richard Grimshaw, 13, was riding with a neighbor on a road near San Bernardino, Calif., six years ago when another auto plowed into the rear of their Ford Pinto. The Pinto's gas tank ruptured, filling the passenger compartment with flames that mortally injured the driver and spread burns over 90% of Richard's body. Since then, the badly scarred teenager has undergone more than 50 operations. When the case went before a Santa Ana, Calif., jury six months ago, the plaintiffs charged that even though Ford's own crash testing had revealed weakness in Pinto...
...increased willingness of Americans to bring suit. Insurers are pressing for legislation to ease their burden by shortening statutes of limitation, putting a lid on lawyer contingency fees, and setting up Government reinsurance funds. But plaintiffs' lawyers insist that large awards often benefit society. Says Claremont, Calif, Lawyer William Shernoff: "I've seen case after case in which a company reformed shoddy business practices after being hit with punitive damages. It really works...
DIED. Abraham Lincoln Wirin, 77, for four decades chief counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union who frequently took its cases before the Supreme Court; of a stroke; in Hollywood, Calif. Wirin fought for workers during the '30s, helped restore the rights and property of Japanese Americans following World War II, and battled the death penalty as unconstitutional. In the A.C.L.U.'s libertarian tradition, he also counseled fascists, Nazis, religious fanatics, and criminals, including Sirhan Sirhan. Said Wirin: "The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member...