Word: clara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This activity is part of the explosive growth of the microelectronics industry, which since 1963 has transformed Santa Clara County, whose heart is Silicon Valley, from a bucolic orchard to a crazy quilt of low-slung buildings and endless seams of freeway. Electronics sales are rising 14% annually and will reach an expected $66 billion this year; 10% of the total volume comes from Silicon Valley. Partly because of a post-Viet Nam decline in trained electronics workers coming out of the military, the valley's personnel officers are searching to fill an estimated 5,000 openings...
What recruiters do not talk about is the sky-high housing costs. Last year the average price of a house was almost $74,000 in the Santa Clara Valley, vs. $43,000 in the nation as a whole. Ted Oliver, an engineer for Sycor in Ann Arbor, Mich., turned down a job with Memorex in the valley because he figured that, despite the handsome pay and perks, "I would have had to accept a lower living standard at double the cost." No doubt many other employees, new and old, are happy out in the valley. But with the nation...
...Burglar Bernard Barker held a $10,000-a-year CETA job as a sanitation inspector, which he got on the recommendation of Miami City Commissioner Manolo Reboso. CETA also paid half of his tuition as an engineering student at Florida International University. CETA pays Barker's ex-wife Clara $14,000 a year as a clerk-typist and his present wife Maria $12,500 a year as a city sanitation inspector. Says Barker: "I think it is a wonderful program...
Something happened over the last few years, the last few months. When we last remember leaving Dylan, it was amid no little confusion. History and myth, past hits and hints at new styles were tangled up in the touring Rolling Thunder Revue, the film Renaldo and Clara and the albums Desire and Hard Rain. Dylan was on shaky ground and knew it. The best moments of the period-the Revue and the concert footage in Renaldo and Clara-were a bow to the past, finding little support in Dylan's more recent work. The Revue, above all, indicated that...
...Last Waltz concludes with Dylan, and Scorsese photographs him better than Dylan photographed himself in Renaldo and Clara. But the real star of the film is Band Guitarist Robbie Robertson, whose ability to project charm and sex on-camera can be matched by only a few movie stars. Robertson is so mesmerizing that one can almost forgive him a self-martyring speech in which he attempts to link himself with every rock star who has ever met a tragic death...