Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is Martin Beckman, 54, "Montana's Fighting Redhead," who is campaigning on the novel notion that "everyone should pay a fair share of taxes." Hugh Bagley, 52, of Keyes, Calif., has called for the annexation of Mexico as the 51st state. To rein force the point, he has printed up some real-looking $51 bills...
...first full-fledged test of the idea will probably be in San Jose, Calif. In a proposal by Mayor Tom McEnery, high school graduates who pass the state's regular police admissions examination will be eligible for four-year college scholarships of $7,000 a year. The participants will be allowed to choose any course of study, but would spend then summer vacations preparing for police work by attending required training programs. After graduation, they would join the police department with the same law-enforcement authority as regular officers. Police Corps graduates will earn about $25,000 in total...
...grounds. Cambridge, Mass., effectively blocked a Kennedy library at Harvard because the city feared too much traffic. After heated debate, Duke University in North Carolina decided it did not want to erect a memorial to its law school alumnus Richard Nixon (the library is being built in San Clemente, Calif.). Nowhere have battle lines been more sharply drawn than at California's Stanford University, where after months of controversy and negotiation, the trustees last week approved a Ronald Reagan library and museum...
...evidence comes from a remarkable automated observatory called Pioneer Venus. Since late in 1978 the 810-lb. machine has been circling Venus, probing it with a battery of instruments, including radar. The devices, said Pioneer Venus scientists meeting at NASA's Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif, have revealed that under Venus' clouds is a landscape almost as dramatic as the earth's: sprawling plateaus, mountains as high as Everest and great chasms similar to terrestrial rift valleys...
...Academy in Washington. He concentrated on downhill when he began to tour in Europe and saw how downhillers were revered there. Off the road he divided his time between the houses of his father Wally, a computer systems analyst and sometime house-builder who lives in Van Nuys, Calif., and his mother D.B., who raced stock cars in high school and is now a contract administrator for an electronics firm near Portland, Ore. The portrait his parents give is of a bright boy who skipped two grades in school, was shy and defensive and, says his mother, got "straight...