Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship, along with the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmen, from 3 miles down. But no missiles or codes are known to have been recovered. Today, says Navy Spokesman Lieut. Ken Ross, the Glomar Explorer is "being retained for Navy contingency use at the Maritime Administration site in Suisun Bay, Calif. If there's something that comes up and we determine that we need to use it, it's there, ready...
Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday that his latest head-count shows 49 senators likely to oppose Bork, 40 likely to support him and 11 undecided...
...vending machine become a short-order cook? Apparently yes, but the menu is still limited. Prize Frize of Palm Springs, Calif., last week began selling an automated dispenser of fresh-cooked French fries. For 75 cents or $1, it adds water to a dehydrated potato concentrate, forms the mix into fries, plops them into hot oil, and in one minute delivers a 4-oz. serving...
...many goodies to one homeowner. Dual "entertainment centers," including one for the children, are increasingly common in today's luxury homes. Both centers may be outfitted with records and audio-and videotapes, along with movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when his guests might want to relax in style without their hosts...
Many of the well-heeled members of the suburban gentry go to more extravagant lengths. Cableland, the 30-room mansion built by Cable TV Mogul Bill Daniels in Denver, has a bandstand in the living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool...