Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bell Fremont, Calif...
Then, before 2,000 people at the Omaha Beach memorial, the President read from a letter sent to him by Lisa Zanatta Henn, 28, of Millbrae, Calif. Many years ago, Peter Robert Zanatta of the 37th Engineer Combat Battalion had told his little girl that he would one day return to Normandy. After he died of cancer, his daughter vowed to make the pilgrimage on his behalf. "I'm going there, Dad," she wrote in the letter Reagan read, "and I'll I see the beaches and the barricades and the monuments." As the President read, his voice...
...When its PCjr, which sells for $669 and $1,269 in different models, was first marketed in January, analysts forecast that 500,000 would be sold this year. But First Boston's Edelson says results will be less than half that. Mark Wozniak, co-owner of a Sunnyvale, Calif., computer store and brother of Apple Co-Founder Stephen Wozniak, no longer even stocks the PCjr. Says he: "It was too much heartache." Last week, in an effort to spur sales and make the PCjr more compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices to $599 and $999. It reduced prices...
Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
DIED. Arthur H. ("Red") Motley, 83, publisher-president responsible for making Parade magazine the largest and most profitable of the national Sunday supplements; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. A garrulous onetime salesman of zithers and Fuller brushes, he became boss of the five-year-old, money-losing supplement in 1946. By pitching it to newspaper markets in the burgeoning suburbs, he increased its circulation from 2 million to 19 million, under various owners, until his retirement...