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...Inglewood, Calif...
Died. Dan Blocker, 43, Hoss Cartwright on TV's Bonanza series for 14 years; of a blood clot in the lung following surgery; in Inglewood, Calif. A former high school teacher, Blocker spent two knockabout years in Hollywood before getting a regular job as the Cartwright family's oversized middle son. The show became one of TV's most successful horse operas (400 million viewers in 84 countries) and made Blocker a millionaire...
...topography all its own these days, massive chocolate mountains of it below you to the east, a permanent black tumor over Hollywood and the downtown area seeping in channels through the passes out into the Valley and on into the Mojave Desert; to the west, over West L.A., Inglewood and Santa Monica, the smog is unexplainably green, and you realize that you are surrounded by a rainbow of smog, all of it a part of the land, undeniable, permanent, so that soon you'll be able to say, "I live in the green part"-or the brown part...
...Bedford-Stuyvesant, Columbia Point, or Hough does. Absent is the visual oppressiveness of old six-story run-downs, crumbling brownstone block houses, and the vertical caskets of towering, post-war housing projects. If one is not paying attention, it's possible and perhaps even easy to drive from nearby Inglewood across Watts to South Gate or above on the Harbor Freeway without sensing that the community is one of the most depressed areas in urban America. Absent is even the sense that Watts is an urban community. The broad streets, and ranch-style tract houses lend it an illusion...
Part of the economic blues was expressed in cynicism. Gail Gabrielson, an Inglewood, Calif., car-rental agent who has been on waiting lists to become a teacher for three years, put it this way: "You bomb to death with...