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...kept simple, explains Program Director George Kriste, so that others "wouldn't think they had to be an engineer to contribute." That was no problem, to judge by the number of engaging but totally impracticable suggestions that flooded into Arco's Los Angeles headquarters. For instance, a Chino, Calif., contributor, Dale Jennings, suggested that ardent energy savers be allowed to ride "Bumper-Snatchers"-lightweight pedicabs that could be hooked onto the bumpers of gas-guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles...
...Indiana University as a "good dresser," she taught junior high school English for a year in Bloomington. Last year she and her husband William moved to Berkeley. She worked as a clerk typist at the University of California and became deeply involved in radical activities. She headed the Oakland Chino Defense Committee, which raised funds for the legal defense of members of the Venceremos and others accused of aiding a prison escape...
...turned left and walked quickly through the crowds who were shopping for clothes among the row of stalls draped with cheap blouses, chino pants, and button-down sweaters. I looked behind me apprehensively, but in a mob such as this, I reasoned, there was no way they could have followed me. Still I was taking no chances, and I weaved in and out among the sack-carrying men, chicken-dragging women, and soccer-playing children, taking care at the same time not to step into the garbage that had collected in the middle of the street. A small alley that...
...California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities have a whole range of institutions in between and joints catering to special interests. A homosexual, for instance, who has played the game right, would be rewarded with...
...rest of the Duke's duds have become as ritualized as a knight's regalia. His stetsons and handmade boots, his chino pants and leather vests, his intricate, yoked-front shirts have been part of his standard wardrobe for years. He has been using the same gun belt for several decades, and the same chaps-a gift from an old western actor-for close to half a century. The "D" on the buckle stands for Dunson, the Wayne character in Red River. A gift from Hawks, it carries his initials in one corner. Wayne also wears...