Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharla Vohs Oakland, Calif...
...sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back to 1948, when hamburger No. 1 went on the grill at the McDonald brothers' drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif. McDonald's acknowledges that it will be unable to single out the 50 billionth patty among its restaurants in 31 countries. But it says that its computer analysts will be able to estimate roughly, about ten days ahead of time, the day and the hour the historic burger will...
...third-degree burns of his hands, scalp and face, after he was splashed with paint thinner and set ablaze by a fellow inmate and murderer, Jan Holmstrom, a Hare Krishna devotee who said that Manson complained about his continual chanting; in the California Medical Facility infirmary; in Vacaville, Calif...
...pioneer of forensic dentistry, the founding dean of UCLA's school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...
DIED. Walter Pidgeon, 87, urbane, courtly actor for half a century in Hollywood who dignified more than 100 films, most often as a reassuring and formidable gentleman; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born in Canada, Pidgeon reached his peak of popularity during the 1940s and '50s when he teamed with Greer Garson for eight films, most notably Mrs. Miniver, in which he movingly portrayed the staunch father of an English family whose lives are rent by World...