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...PROJECT THEFT GUARD to paste on their front and back doors. The safety measures, say police, will not only act as a deterrent to burglars but also aid in the identification of stolen goods and make them more difficult to sell. The practice of engraving identification numbers originated in Monterey Park, Calif., and has since been adopted in more than 150 U.S. communities. In Monterey Park, at least, the results have been dramatic: over a given period, 6,000 nonparticipating homes were burglarized a total of 2,000 times while 5,000 participating homes were hit only 20 times...
...similar program was piloted in Monterey Park, Calif., in 1963. Since then only three of the 4000 protected homes were burglarized, while 1800 of the 7000 unguarded houses have been robbed...
Fistfight. His wanderings took him as far as Kashmir. If he lacked Hemingway's stature, he had gathered a certain amount of tragic experience to draw on. His second wife Claire, whom he had met on Ibiza, died in a car crash in Monterey, Calif., in the late '50s, when she was eight months pregnant. The wife of Novelist Dennis Murphy was also killed in the crash, and Irving, who had often been unfaithful to Claire, had a drunken fistfight with Murphy over who was to blame for the accident...
...embodies much of George Jackson's attitude towards his imminent death during the last 18 months of his life. During that period, Jackson was confined first in the maximum security block of Soledad and then, after obtaining a change of venue that transferred his trial from Monterey to Marin County, in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin. Held in close confinement in prison, chained when he was taken out to appear in court. Jackson became less of a prisoner during this time than he had ever been before...
...Angeles' freeways. Filling in for a vacationing traffic reporter, Powers says that the biggest change he can spot from his single-engine Cessna is that in the early '60s "when I flew at high altitudes, I could see from the Gulf of California to the Monterey Peninsula on a clear day. Now at 3,000 ft., with all the smog we have, sometimes I'm lucky to see three miles...