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Sean Doyle sat in the corner at our first proctor meeting. He was the only southern Californian in the group of about 20, and like the rest of us, he could hardly believe what he was hearing. Rob, our proctor, was outlining the punishments for breaking various rules; the worst things warranted expungement...
Unlike the rest of us, Sean was never really in awe of Harvard. A graduate of Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, where he lettered in three sports, Doyle says. "I thought Harvard was in Connecticut." Recruited to play volleyball, a quintessentially Californian sport that has hardly taken hold in beachless Cambridge, he had never even seen Harvard until he arrived on September 9, 1981. He was, he recalls, "the ultimate California...
...cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more expensive rooms is lower. The tourist traffic, though, is not strictly rational. To a passionate bargain hunter, squandering money is part of the fun. One Californian, Joanne Pearson, flew to France just to accompany her son home. Says she, almost straight-faced: "He needed someone to carry an extra...
Then there is the Californian diplomatically known as Mr. X who ordered a Mercedes limousine in London for $30,000, a theoretical saving of $15,000. But Mr. X was not primarily interested in bargains. He ordered the limousine cut in half and stretched 4 ft., repainted in Porsche metallic blue and retrimmed in Connolly English magnolia leather throughout. He had a bar, television and telephone installed. The total price came to $92,000, in contrast to a U.S. price of God knows what. Normally he would have paid $850 for shipment to Los Angeles, but he wanted...
What's the logical extreme? How much farther can this go? Not far off, it seems, is the hirsute man plunging into the churning, blood warm waters of the Amazon with live steamy Nordic goddesses, a virile Californian casing his board down the vertiginous drop of the falls and no can of the within 10,000 miles...