Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only met but exceeded...
Escondido, Calif...
Since its shoestring beginning in an Ocean Park, Calif., garage, Synanon has done very well by itself. The taxexempt, nonprofit organization has 883 adults and 300 children living in luxury on two ranches in the Sierra foothills, beach-front property in Santa Monica and Tomales Bay and in a converted San Francisco paint factory. Most members pay a minimum $400 a month for room, board and uplift, but some contribute much more. One woman has donated more than $1 million. Synanon's assets, including ten aircraft and 400 cars, trucks and motorcycles, total almost $30 million. Its advertising...
...Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
...most spectacular and prosperous of the new centers, however, also grew out of the Jesus Movement: Chuck Smith's Calvary Church downstate in Costa Mesa, Calif. A liberal writer in Christian Century snaps that the church "churns out ignorance and hysteria," but in the pulpit Smith is actually a balding Everyman, leading hymns with only modest gestures and offering unvarnished Bible lectures accompanied by a disarmingly broad smile. "People come here because God is explained to them in a way they can understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives...