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...common-law husband, runs a small restaurant near Tijuana. She has been dramatized in the Mexican press as "Madre sufrida sin hija" (long-suffering mother without daughter). The Americans are Mark Johns, 42, and his wife Eileen, 39, who in 1975 traveled to Tijuana from their home in Fremont, Calif., to adopt a baby. Whether a transaction occurred and how legitimate it may have been remain murky. What is known is that the Johnses crossed back over the border with the child, whom they named Cynthia. A Mexican judge, acting on Macias-Rosales' complaint, issued a warrant for Mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Border Battle | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...countless blackjack hands since then, Uston and the team of players he generally works with have piled up total winnings of more than $4.5 million. His biggest individual killing was $27,500 in 45 min., at Fremont Casino in Las Vegas in 1975. He once played eight hours a day for 23 straight days, falling behind as much as $35,000 before recouping and finally going ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Blackjack Buckaroo | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Tissue Tussle | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...Fremont West Music

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Bank Deposit | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Yvette's athletic gifts are equal to her hopes. Her coach, Laura Holden, states unequivocally: "Yvette is the most talented player I've ever seen. When I first saw her shoot, I just about fainted." But Holden is leaving Fremont, and no coach has been hired to replace her. Uniforms are in such short supply that they must be shared by three teams; Yvette has to retrieve her uniform from a volleyball player to pose for photographs. Says Holden: "If she was a young man and had this kind of potential and ability, there would be no question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comes the Revolution | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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