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...past had seemed cloistered and parochial, were beginning to break out of their mold. Numerous bright instructors in government and economics and some senior professors, together with a yearly complement of clever young law graduates serving as law clerks to such Supreme Court justices as Brandeis and Cardoza, had begun to trickle down to Washington to work for the Roosevelt New Deal--a trickle that became a veritable flood during the Second World War and one that has continued unabated ever since...
Some 160,000 refugees have come to L.A. from El Salvador since 1980, when the crossfire of insurgency and repression escalated. Most are unskilled and terribly poor. In 1981 Narciso Cardoza walked over the Mexican border into Texas, illegally, and then flew to L.A. to join his wife and daughter, now 5, in East L.A. "I thought I would be living with Americans, lots of blonds speaking English and playing baseball," he says of his arrival, "but it looked just like Mexico to me." He is disapproving of his Mexican neighbors who, he says, "sit around all day, swearing...
Pincus is an ex-student at Cardoza College (read Brandeis, where Lelchuk teaches English). But the first half of the book belongs to Pincus' former teacher Bernard Kovell, the school's 35-year-old humanities dean. By day Kovell is the model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken...
...soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much more relaxed now." CJ Automatic foreign-currency exchange machine, installed at Sabena airlines' passenger lounge at New York's Idlewild Airport, which trades currencies from France, England, Belgium, West Germany and Italy for a U.S. $5 bill. Manufactured by National Rejectors Inc., the machine...
...Supermen. In New Bedford, Mass., after police recaptured Jailbreakers Charles Cardoza and Albert Vincent, the prisoners explained that they had not heard police surround their hideaway because they were too absorbed in reading comic books...