Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleary may dress in Crimson, but he's a walking, talking advertisement for the Red, White and Blue. Cleary played in two Olympics--in 1956 and 1960--and helped lead the U.S. hockey team to the gold in Squaw Valley, Calif...
...long as she can remember, Gwen Linde wanted to be a pilot. At Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., Linde, 29, is commander of a C-141 transport plane, a mammoth, 75-ton, four-engine workhorse that carries everything from weapons, paratroopers and medical supplies to Bob Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been...
Boitano hands most of the credit to Coach Linda Leaver. When she spotted him at age eight in Sunnyvale, Calif., Leaver was initially struck by how "tiny and adorable" he was. She was most taken, however, by his rapid improvement. "I came home and told my husband that Brian would be a world champion," says Leaver. "It just took a little longer than I thought." After 16 years of working together, Leaver and Boitano hardly need to speak. They simply sense. "It's kind of like one person split in half," he says...
...Hanne Lille-Schulstad, a Lawrence, Kans., drug-abuse specialist. Others simply hope for the best: that drunken teens will have the sense to call home for a ride or allow a sober friend to take the car keys away before they get behind the wheel. Says one Hollywood Hills, Calif., mother of a 15-year-old son: "They don't want to be seen as punitive, so they walk the line of being understanding...
...Today's vote is the end of a chapter," said House Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D.-Calif.). "The contra policy is the past. Now we can deploy America's greatest strengths, from aid and trade to diplomacy, to stoke the flames of liberty and secure the future for Central America...