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Clark, 50, owes every job of his 15-year public career to Ronald Reagan. He was running a law firm in his home town of Oxnard when they met during Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign; the next year. Clark became Reagan's chief of staff. He devised a "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, stamped INFORMATION or DECISION, so Reagan would know at a glance whether a response was needed. Among Clark's subordinates then were Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. Clark remains very friendly with both, but reminds listeners that they once worked...
...University of New Mexico that involved faking academic credits for Guard Craig Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert by paying $300 to John Woolley, dean of admissions at Oxnard College in Oxnard, Calif. Gilbert had gone to school there for one year. The plan was to have Woolley certify that Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert, a Californian, had never gone to far-off Mercer, but Goldstein...
Another racial incident took place the following night in Oxnard, Calif, a town of farm workers 40 miles from Los Angeles. A scuffle broke out in a the ater lobby after the first showing of The Warriors, and Timothy Gitchel, 18, white, was stabbed to death by a black youth...
...lunch the other day, sitting with an actor, I remembered the first time I saw Citizen Kane. He remembered too, and we compared gurgled memories of How It Was the First Time. This is a fairly routine thing to discuss, I realize; in New York, Oxnard, Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of conversation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug, here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was trans-fixed...after the first time I saw the "Seventh Seal" I couldn...
...adapting their considerable skills to what impressed me as a surprisingly rigid and depressingly self-limiting format: Harvard may be a many-splendored place, but as Johnny Carson quickly learned about Southern California, it's only good for--tops--100 intrinsically funny words (like "Hot Breakfast," "Burbank," "Mather House," "Oxnard" and "premed") which can therefore be thrown right at audiences without the benefit of a joke-vehicle (i.e.--story-cum-punchline) and still elicit Big Laffs. Given that constraint, and given the fact that it was largely ignored by the Pudding People this year, the show couldn't help...