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...learn better English. Indeed, the language barrier is the worst problem for the entire family, though American customs are as unfamiliar as the idiom. Accustomed to Saigon's strictly military parades, the Longs were surprised to find not only firemen and politicians but also schoolchildren marching in Corte Madera, Calif., on the Fourth of July. After seeing a drive-in movie theater and hearing about drive-in churches and banks, Long kept repeating with amused wonder, "America is very convenient...
Once a semilicit pastime for thrill-seeking high school kids, drag racing has become big business since 1951, when Wally Parks, a former racing driver, founded the N.H.R.A. and held its first meet on an abandoned airstrip in Madera, Calif. Last year the organization sanctioned 2,930 races at 150 tracks, drawing more than 4,000,000 paying spectators...
...singer and harmonica player with the Grateful Dead, the San Francisco rock group whose loud, countrified rhythm-and-blues has been a staple of the West Coast counterculture since the mid-'60s; from as yet undetermined causes (he had recently been under treatment for liver disease); in Corte Madera, Calif...
...Corte Madera, Calif...
...Madera, Calif...