Word: capistrano
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Swallows return to Capistrano, and pigeons come home to roost. Even lemmings find something of a home on the wrong side of the seaside cliffs from which they like to dive. But for governors of Massachusetts, it seems, the only place to head after the end of a term is Harvard--and so that is what Michael S. Dukakis has done...
Just two months after leaving a Connecticut sanitarium for treatment of psychiatric problems, Joan Kennedy, 38, wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, has checked into a private clinic at Capistrano by the Sea, Calif, that specializes in megavitamin therapy. Joan is known to have been suffering from stress since her son Teddy's leg amputation for bone cancer last November. According to friends who saw her at a recent Kennedy family-sponsored tennis benefit in New York she was "a nervous wreck" despite a restful summer of sailing and sunning at Hyannis Port...
...resplendent in rich brown deerskin bolero and blue-and-silver sombrero, led his Guadalajara Boys mariachi of eight Mexican-American musicians in a fair approximation of Happy Birthday. The band was Nixon's own idea; he discovered it at El Adobe, a favorite restaurant in nearby San Juan Capistrano, and pronounced their sound "beautiful." After The Yellow Rose of Texas, Nixon exclaimed: "Now let's get that Happy Birthday really going!" With a flourishing downbeat, he shouted: "Go!" Bystanding aides and secretaries joined Lady Bird and the Nixons in an encore. "How about that?" said Nixon...
Soon, Kuralt plans to head his bus for Hinckley, Ohio, where, like the swallows of Capistrano, a flock of buzzards returns every year, for what has become an annual Buzzard Festival. All this is hardly bulletin matter. Yet, if nothing else, the enthusiastic response of viewers to Kuralt's vignettes does prove, as he says, that "the definition of television news needs broadening...
...horse was George Royal; he had won only one race this year. The name of the "boy" on his back was Johnny Longden, and that was enough to lower the odds on him to 6-1 as he left the gate in last week's San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita...