Word: calif
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Throughout the summer, antiwar demonstrators have used their bodies to block the movement of munitions at the naval weapons station in Concord, Calif. Last week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other...
...feeling good is a religion, its cathedral is Esalen. The nerve center of the counterculture, the cradle of Gestalt therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...visit India; you visit yourself," a New York investment analyst tells an Italian woman from Houston and her 18-year-old son. "Whether man finds things on Mars is a reflection of whether he can find them in his subconscious," opines a crystals dealer from Santa Cruz, Calif. At another table, former All-Star Pitcher Vida Blue is buried in a book; at still another, a Balinese dancer chats with the former lead flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra...
...weeks ago, even as the daunting logistics for his tour were being fine-tuned, an adult Bible class met at the red brick Our Lady of the Assumption school in Claremont, Calif. The 25 participants quickly fell into heated disagreement over two issues: Is it morally licit for couples to live together outside of marriage? Should the church approve the remarriage of divorced parishioners? A generation ago, members of such a group would not have challenged the church's no to both questions. But at this meeting, reported Lee Kimball, a registered nurse, "Everybody had a different opinion. That...
Take Kathy Davis, 26. She works a 37 1/2-hour week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as a clerk for Oral B Laboratories, a toothbrush maker in Redwood City, Calif. Then, on Sunday afternoons and Monday and Tuesday evenings, she clocks an additional 13 hours selling sheets and towels at a branch of Macy's department store. "It takes a toll," says Davis of her 50 1/2-hour work week. Nonetheless, she expects to continue moonlighting for at least a year to pay off debts she ran up before losing a previous job in San Diego...