Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jerome Atwood Los Gatos, Calif...
Earl D. Reese Palo Alto, Calif...
...institution that most nearly fulfills the dubious idea of selective breeding is the Repository for Germinal Choice, of Escondido, Calif., which announced at its opening in 1980 that it would use sperm donated by Nobel prizewinners. The repository has received the cooperation of only three such prizewinners and now relies on donors of less than Nobel stature, but Founder Robert Graham is as enthusiastic as ever. "We're proud of our results," says he of the repository's 15 children. "These kids will sail through schools. We are indicating how good human beings can have...
...Nancy Reagan has transformed a sprinkling of fresh raspberries in a tart shell into something approaching the national food. Ballrooms were packed at lunchtime with women who described themselves as mainstream. At a Monday lunch given by Anti-ERA-Activist Phyllis Schlafly, Dorothy Kranhold, an alternate delegate from Danville, Calif, said, "It amazes me that people would think this is not a cross section of the American public." She waved an encompassing arm at the room full of overwhelmingly white, conservative, married women whose greatest mark of diversity was whether they wore silk or synthetic. They were not all rich...
DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms...