Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Richard Pryor, 36, zany, biting, black comedian who has his own NBC weekly show and is about to star in the film version of the Broadway hit The Wiz; and Model Deboragh McGuire, 23; he for the fourth time, she for the first; at his home in Northridge, Calif...
DIED. Irma Duncan, 80, adopted daughter and disciple of Isadora Duncan, the flamboyant founder of modern dance; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Germany, at seven Irma Ehrich-Grimme joined Duncan's school at Grünewald as a scholarship student. She and five other "Isadorables" were later legally adopted by the famous dancer. In 1921 Irma helped her mother found a dancing school in the U.S.S.R., and after Isadora's death in 1927 brought to the U.S. a troupe of Soviet girls. She became a U.S. citizen and opened, in Manhattan, the first American Isadora Duncan School...
Residents of arid Littlerock, Calif, (pop. 1,500), a farm community northeast of Los Angeles, have a choice of potential disasters. Would they rather risk being drowned, or drying up and blowing away? State officials want to drain the 521 million-gal, reservoir behind the nearby Littlerock Dam, whose water irrigates the peach and pear groves and melon fields that give the town what little prosperity it has. But the 53-year-old dam sits virtually atop the San Andreas Fault. Although the structure has survived severe tremors in the past, seismologists say it is located where the next...
MARRIED. Glenn Ford, 61, strong-jawed, soft-spoken Hollywood good guy; and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his companion for three years; he for the third time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...woman's movement is in trouble," boomed C. Delores Tucker, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "We have lost direction and are mired in disunity." Few of her listeners at last week's biennial meeting of the National Women's Political Caucus in San Jose, Calif., were inclined to disagree. For the faltering feminist movement, 1977 has been a discouraging year. The Supreme Court ruling that states no longer have to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions for the poor was an unexpected blow. The Equal Rights Amendment is stalled just three states short of ratification...