Word: californians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native Californian, I wasn't surprised by your article on male strippers [Aug. 13]. What astounds me is the location of the clubs. Never again when I hear about Wisconsin, Kansas or Iowa will I think of Mom, the flag and apple pie. From now on it will be naked men, towels and cheesecake...
...Yosemite, with his father in June 1916. He brought along a Kodak Brownie box camera. The trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate affairs. Adams, working for the Sierra Club as a photographer...
...increasing strong Force 10, imminent." Most of the 306 yachts in Britain's 605-mile Fastnet race were already in the South Irish Sea, near the bleak rock for which the biennial blue-water classic is named. Running for shelter seemed unnecessary, perhaps impossible. Said Tom McLoughlin, a Californian aboard the French yacht Accanito: "We deluded ourselves into thinking that the weather was going to improve...
...this Wimbledon, or something dreamed up by an OPEC entrepreneur? Not only was the price of strawberries and cream up sharply, from $1.20 to $1.65, but a glass of champagne cost $3.30, a dollar more than last year. To top it all off, an unseeded but well-endowed Californian named Linda Siegel, 18, momentarily popped out of her daring, halter-neck tennis dress in mid-stroke during a losing engagement with Billie Jean King. GAME, SET ... OUT! chortled a Fleet Street headline...
...native Californian, I was offended by your article "Gas: A Long, Dry Summer" [May 21]. Californians are not selfish, greedy gas hogs. California has been hit the hardest in the nation, but we will survive...