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...Eleven stores with joint-venture partners in Mexico and will open 20 more by the end of the year. Wal-Mart opened a block- long supercenter in Mexico City in September, along with five Sam's Clubs warehouse stores. The Arkansas-based company is completing a second supercenter in Monterey, Mexico, this month, plus two more warehouse clubs. Rival K Mart will open its first Mexican store in 1994, and plans to build more than 50 outlets over the next five years...
Until then, the battle to stave off closures goes on. The bases under consideration are Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps installations, including such well-known ones as Miramar Naval Air Station and Presidio of Monterey in California and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. None of the targeted bases, though, has defenders more fervid than the partisans of three East Coast naval shipyards: at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; and Norfolk, Virginia. All three can claim long, distinguished service to the U.S. Navy, are particularly proud of being "Navy towns" and typify the head-to-head...
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: COMPANY. At 10 one May Sunday morning in 1970, cinema verite filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop) took his camera into the studio to document the recording of Company, the witty, brittle musical that established Stephen Sondheim as Broadway's premier lyricist-composer. Pennebaker fashioned the joy and angst of the 18 1/2-hr. endeavor into a thrilling mini-musical in itself. Virtually unseen for two decades, the film is now available on video (RCA Victor). High points: Dean Jones earnestly attacking Being Alive, Elaine Stritch agonizing through The Ladies Who Lunch...
...mind, a golden land unanchored in tradition or guilt. A fresh start: no corpse of the past, no tragedy. Gravity feels different in California -- life there sometimes has the weightlessness of a dream. What feels morally heavy Back East may dissolve into inconsequence in the delicious sunshine off Monterey. A State Department analyst may move to Huntington Beach and with intense focus take up competitive Frisbee. Recreation has the significance in California of a big idea...
...cooking with Ken Frank, who opened La Toque in Los Angeles to show off his ideas. At the same time, ethnic communities were growing rapidly, especially around Los Angeles. The town of Westminster in Orange County was becoming a vast Little Saigon, eerily reminiscent of Vietnam two decades ago. Monterey Park is now the modern Chinatown, where purist chefs from Hong Kong disdain any mixed methods -- and draw their own faithful crowds...