Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organ on the bandstand piped out random tunes for the early arrivals. Vendors set up rows of gaily colored booths to sell buttons (WE'RE NO. l), pennants (ITALIAN POWER!) and other paraphernalia of prideful protest. Now, in the already shimmering morning heat, the buses came rolling in from Corona in Queens, Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, Greenwich Village and all the Little Italys of the city. The occasion was the Italian-American Civil Rights League's second annual Unity Day, and it was meant to be fun for everyone...
...beach at Corona del Mar, Calif., the Rev. Chuck Smith recently held another of the mass baptisms that have made his Calvary Chapel at Santa Ana famous. Under a setting sun, several hundred converts waded into the cold Pacific, patiently waiting their turn for the rite. On the cliffs above, hundreds more watched. Most...
...Corona returned to his contracting job, regaining the confidence of the area orchard owners (he had the run of the Sullivan ranch, where most of the bod ies have been found). He kept to him self and taught his family to do the same. "He never bothered anyone around here," says a neighbor...
...Welfare. There were other odd ities. His commitment to the church be came obsessive. He said the rosary every night with his family, went to Mass three times a week and recently went on a retreat. Curiously, although no one has ever seen him on a horse, Corona recently joined the El Charro Association, a society dedicated to promoting horsemanship in the Mexican tradition. He often went to his brother's bar at night, but never drank. Said one farm worker: "He would just sit silently and look at the rest of us." A year...
...Corona goes to trial, it would surely be the goriest-and hence the most sensational-in the nation's annals of mass murder. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: there will be no float-parade trophy this year to fill the other front window of the neat house on Richland Road. The window is occupied anyway-by a brass balance scale, the ancient symbol of justice...