Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high wire fences of Camp Elliott, Calif, take in 40 square miles of desert scrublands northeast of San Diego, and keep in 885 grey-uniformed men who have been sentenced for a set term in the U.S. Naval Retraining Command-the Navy's equivalent of a reformatory. Be havior problems one and all, the men have gone AWOL, committed thefts or sexual offenses, assaulted superiors or somehow violated one of the hundreds of "Rocks and Shoals" (Navy Regulations). In their state of military purgatory they run through a routine of work details, formations, exercise and orientation lectures. When their...
Died. Paul W. White, 53, veteran radio newsman, organizer and longtime (1934-46) director of news broadcasts for the Columbia Broadcasting System; after long illness; in San Diego...
Married. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 20, retired world tennis queen (Australia, France, England and U.S. championships in 1953) turned sports columnist (for the San Diego Union); and Norman A. Brinker, 24, San Diego State College sophomore and member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team (1952); in San Diego...
Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified...
...President Weaver to Conceive Show Which No Person Young at Heart Can Ever Forget." Showing the wide, wide world will require twelve mobile units, 40 cameras, 1,000 performers and technicians, 10,000 miles of telephone line. It will hop cross-country from Broadway to the shores of San Diego and the ski slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch...