Word: calif
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John P. Neumann '86, of Adams House and Palo Alto, Calif., appeared to have "jumped of his own volition" from the Criminal Courts building in downtown Manhattan, said New York Police Sgt. John Codiglia...
Torrance, Calif...
...federal court in San Francisco levied stiff penalties against National Semiconductor of Santa Clara, Calif. (1983 sales: $1.2 billion). The firm pleaded guilty to 40 charges of defrauding the Government by failing to test electronic products properly, and agreed to pay nearly $1.8 million in civil and criminal fines. The Defense Department is investigating 14 other military suppliers, including Fairchild Camera & Instrument, a Silicon Valley firm...
...require, as a visa, a disbelief willingly and perhaps perpetually suspended, a wariness of outsiders (Jackson has not given a print interview in more than a year), a capacity for gentleness, and a tolerance for fantasy that might tax the average adult imagination. Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys...
DIED. William Powell, 91, suave actor whose resonant voice and easygoing elegance made him the movies' pre-eminent American gentleman; in Palm Springs, Calif. His silky good looks and pencil-thin mustache first got him typed as a villain in silent films, but when sound arrived, Powell became an expert at sophisticated comedy, appearing in such films as My Man Godfrey, The Great Ziegfeld (both 1936) and most unforgettably the six Thin Man movies (1934-47), in which he and Co-Star Myrna Loy were Nick and Nora Charles, the models for dozens of witty Hollywood sleuths to follow...