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They found a tiny bungalow on a treeless back street in Costa Mesa. Sam went back to blaming out "La Primavera" but it was already October in his blood and he couldn't concentrate. The new neighbors were friendlier than the old, convinced as they were that Sam was running a clandestine body shop in his garage. Everyone on Azulinda Avenue did something shady for a living, so the young Bollos at 1239A fit right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

OTTO H. ANDERSON Costa Mesa, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

After that accident in her Costa Mesa, Calif., home three years ago, Zayda Hanberry sought $36,000 in damages. Mrs. Hanberry, a retired dancer and movie bit player in her 60s, claimed that the heels of her new shoes were unsafe on vinyl floors. She not only sued the store that had sold her the shoes but also haled the wholesaler into court along with the Hearst Corp., which had given the shoes its Good Housekeeping Consumer's Guarantee Seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumer Law: Slippery Shoes | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Absolute Secrecy. Nowhere was ABC more energetic than in California, where it mixed its usual shrewd salesmanship with strong appeals to patriotism. Describing a typical approach, Dr. Jack Hagadorn, a Costa Mesa physician, said that ABC representatives displayed a right-wing tract denouncing the use of tax money to aid Communist countries. By depriving the Government of such money, they argued, an individual could decide how it should be spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraud: A Taxing Experience | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...Portable Life Support System), then depressurized Eagle's cabin and opened the hatch Wriggling backward out of the hatch on his stomach, Armstrong worked his way across the LM "porch" to the ladder and began to climb down On his way he pulled a lanyard that opened the MESA (Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly) and exposed the camera that televised the remainder of his historic descent. Thus the miracle of the moon flight was heightened by the miracle of TV from outer space, made possible by a special miniature camera (see TELEVISION) Because the camera had to be stowed upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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