Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of U.S. ammunitions for Vietnam are shipped, and maintained it for 800 days despite official pressure, police harassment, and arrests. A second series of raids by federal authorities "convinced me that if I wanted to stay free I'd best stop being brave," so Bernard moved to Costa Rica, where he's organized a commune for "exiles from military dictatorships near...
They found a tiny bungalow on a treeless back street in Costa Mesa. Sam went back to blaming out "La Primavera" but it was already October in his blood and he couldn't concentrate. The new neighbors were friendlier than the old, convinced as they were that Sam was running a clandestine body shop in his garage. Everyone on Azulinda Avenue did something shady for a living, so the young Bollos at 1239A fit right...
...them, they set off for a Sunday afternoon swapout in the lot of an Anaheim drive-in. So much for Merilee to buy in order to transmogrify herself into a proper Samfrau. A refrigerator, a stove to replace the habachi she had been cooking on since the move to Costa Mesa, a huge musty Persian rug to sleep and meditate upon, and many other cosas. Trippy old hinges for doors, rubber plants which manufacture rubber-bands, a larger cage for Birdie. They flaired out of the lot at last with the dowery nearly spent, Sam quiet, and the TR sweating...
...Orthion, a space-age torture rack that rolls, vibrates, heats up and stretches you in two directions at once. The end result: minus 5 Ibs. "Nice going, champ!" says Director Hutton as he pastes two gold stars on your report card. "You just can't beat La Costa. It's a special world...
...muscle factor. It's gorgeous!" BUTT KICKING. First on your Personalized Toning-Up Program is a spin in the Roman pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico-and you end up in the stew with a paint salesman from Poughkeepsie. "They really pamper you," he says...