Word: capistrano
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...record ranging from assault to disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James, 41, a school purchasing agent, at his home in Imperial Beach, only twelve miles from the Mexican border. The two had not seen each other for several months. But now, said John, it was urgent that they talk privately...
...United Nations is the Capistrano of diplomacy. In their swallow-tailed coats, the key statesmen of member na tions swoop into New York each fall for the opening sessions of the General Assembly. This year some 77 foreign ministers and heads of government on hand presented a collection of rare dip lomatic birds unmatched in variety and political color...
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein. Jewish family situation comedies come to Broadway more often than the swallows go back to Capistrano. Separating the dramatic merits and demerits of a Seidman and Son from a Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling is a lot like fingerprinting a Siamese twin. If Enter Laughing is a tiny cut above the breed, it is because Playwright Stein, who adapted his comedy from the autobiographical novel of TV Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small...
...Santa Ana Freeway, on which cars whoosh past such Southern California institutions as Disneyland and San Juan Capistrano on the way from Los Angeles to San Diego, was blotched by fog. As state cops later reconstructed it, a woman driver pulled part way off the freeway with a flat tire-setting off a chain reaction that piled car upon car for five miles. The toll: one dead (a nun riding in a car about a mile back from the first crash), two critically injured. 24 in the hospital, 25 others slightly injured. 20 cars demolished. 40 cars disabled...
...eager customers (average age: 62; average income: $4,000) have already snapped up 1,319 of them. Meantime. Builder Cortese-who will turn management of Rossmoor over to a nonprofit tenants' association once the apartments are all sold-is eying sites for other Leisure Worlds near San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco. Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City...