Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though his Utopia was not achieved, Marcuse lived pleasantly enough. He spent the half decade of student upheaval lecturing genially to packed halls in the sunny tranquillity of the University of California at San Diego. Tanned, fit, cheerful students mixed musings on revolution with sunning, surfing, downing beers. "You cannot have fun with fascism," Marcuse recently complained. Yet he seemed to have fun. Just three years ago, he married his third wife Erica (by his first marriage he had a son Peter...
Already more than 2,000 energy-related companies have set up shop in the city. They range from one-man operations selling drilling-survey data to such giant conglomerates as Gulf, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California. Newcomers have swelled the population of the metropolitan area from 1.2 million in 1970 to 1.6 million today-including 4,000 geologists. One of the nation's fastest-growing cities, Denver has begun to rival Houston for the title of "Energy Capital, U.S.A...
...California publisher becomes au Courant in Connecticut...
...with the quiet and smooth-rolling polyurethane wheels and precision ball bearings that were developed for skateboards, the new skates have better traction and more maneuverability than the noisy metal strap-on models that kids used to rattle around on. Says Harry Ball, 61, president and owner of the California-based Sure-Grip Skate Manufacturing Co., which this year will double its 1978 sales of over $5 million: "The new skate is no longer a toy but a piece of athletic equipment...
...find her infusions of poetry unwiedly and unnecessary. Frame herself simply calls the book an entertainment. It is that and more, for she proves to be not only spinner of bizarre and hunting fantasy but a sharp social observer as well. Her descriptions of New Zealand suburbanization, of California as public confessional booth, of television and religious fakers convey a reality as urgent as Alice Thumb's creativeschizophrenia. -R.Z. Sheppard...