Word: culver
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...fact, Ronald Reagan's only real military service was in the peacetime reserves and as one of "the Culver City commandos," who made training films for the Army Air Forces during World War II. But there is no doubt among those who now watch him in the White House that all those movie parts involving military heroics helped form his view of how America should use its power in the world...
DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which he sold off individually; in Los Angeles...
Carol Bastek Culver City, Calif...
When John Warnock Hinckley Jr., a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo., allegedly shot Reagan and three others on March 30, the debate over handgun control resumed full-force. Former Sen. John Culver '54 (D-lowa), a liberal who lost his bid for re-election last November and who was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that...
...improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam and who now works for Hughes Helicopter in Culver City, Calif. Gritz (rhymes with beets) may not have been the ideal choice to run the secret operation: he showed up at the training camp with a psychic, a hypnotherapist, an ABC News crew and a Washington Post reporter to serve as "historical record keeper." After spending about...