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...three founders, Elaina Newport, Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala, presented the first version of The Capitol Steps at a Senate office Christmas party in 1981. "Like most things in Congress," the program announces, "they never knew when to stop." The Steps' reputation expanded beyond their Washington audience and victims, and they are now heard regularly on National Public Radio...
...Foley, an attorney from Newport Beach, Calif., who went to high school with Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and has followed him through five states, said that he had been standing in front of the polls since...
...assert insanity. Last year, for instance, a Florida forensic psychiatrist who was charged with bribery unsuccessfully argued that he was driven insane by his years of work with criminals. "Being a forensic psychiatrist for a long time is not a mental defect," declares Dr. Park Elliott Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif. Usually, defendants must have a defined mental illness. Moreover, it has to be directly linked to the crime. "Someone may have schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing or couldn't control their conduct," explains Richard Rosner...
...NEWPORT, R.I., WHEN SHE was dating Tom Blackaller, a legendary sailor whose boat, Clipper, shared a dock with Ted Turner's Courageous. The adventuresome California blond, who could drive race cars, pilot sailboats and fly airplanes, caught his eye, and that winter Turner invited her to sail with him on the Southern Ocean Racing circuit out of St. Petersburg. Although he did not own an airplane, he hired Ebaugh as a pilot, and she moved to Atlanta in 1981, bringing along a used one she had bought for him. The relationship (and the piloting) lasted until 1986, when she announced...
Nowhere has massive, sudden growth struck more dramatically than Orange County. Robert Haskill, 39, a Newport Beach insurance man who is a fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways...