Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a team of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents roared into a grocery-store parking lot in Santa Ana, Calif., dozens of Mexican workers scattered, but Mario Moreno-Lopez just stood there. "Run! Run!" shouted a friend. "No," said Mario. "I have papers." Mario, who is 14 but looks much older, does have a green card showing that he is in the U.S. legally. But his father Juan Moreno-Garcia, who was granted U.S. residency rights in 1981, was holding the card for safekeeping. As a result, father and son both became victims of a classic bureaucratic bungle...
...products are delivered to stores like books or records. Softyme Express, a San Francisco firm, last week announced an agreement with computer distributor Micro D to place machines in retail outlets that will let customers receive programs on blank discs over telephone lines. Two other firms, Romox, of Campbell, Calif., and Xante, of Tulsa, are testing or marketing similar systems. Nolan Bushnell, the multimillionaire founder of Atari, is even talking about selling software from vending machines...
...those programs were too bewildering, there were exhibitors at Soft-con promising to help customers separate the software wheat from the fast-growing pile of programmed chaff. ITM, of Walnut Creek, Calif, demonstrated a new computerized method for obtaining instant critical reviews of 4,000 products. Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs, announced the first issue of the Whole Earth Software Review, a quarterly magazine that will pick and pan products. Another publisher, Software Digest, unveiled a $14.95 Ratings Book, which compares 30 word-processing programs written for the IBM Personal Computer. Says Spokesman Harold Poliskin: "We want...
...better; people can be made to answer at a trial, and the ring of lie clanking against truth tells something about them. A slick Florida lawyer has been shot to death and left to ruin the upholstery of his fancy car. A feud among Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif., feeds on itself so long and so bloodily that one participant admits being in jail is a relief. Three acquaintances booze away the afternoon in a country bar in Iowa, and a few hours later one of them has been shotgunned out of this life...
DIED. Jessamyn West, 81, gentle-spirited novelist and short-story writer, best known for her first collection of stories, The Friendly Persuasion, about a Quaker family on the Indiana frontier during the Civil War; in Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...