Word: laguna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAUL W. COLBURN Biology Teacher, Retired Laguna Hills, Calif...
...Cover) SCENE ONE THE TIME: 1948. THE PLACE: A typical, two-room bohio, or farmhouse, on the outskirts of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. The name Laguna Verde, meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from...
Spanish Not Allowed. It was no fluke, either-as Marichal proved by winning his next two starts, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 and the Milwaukee Braves 3-2. By the end of that first, abbreviated big-league season, his record was 6-2. The boy from Laguna Verde obviously knew how to pitch in the big time: now all he had to do was learn how to live there...
...ELLSWORTH Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Laguna Hills, Calif...
Divorced. George Capron, 79, Los Angeles real estate tycoon (860 acres on Laguna Beach); by Ednah Race Capron, 74, who until now ran his household on a budget of $300 a month; on grounds of cruelty (he denied her a nurse last year when she broke her leg); after 55 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: half his fortune, or $16 million, highest award in California history...