Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...
...young figurative artists now working around Los Angeles. Such Hollywood-type collectors as Otto Preminger, Andre Previn and Billy Wilder own canvases by him, and so does Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Strombotne is featured in Art in America's annual "New Talent, U.S.A.," and the Pasadena Art Museum is planning the most precocious honor of all-a full-fledged retrospective next fall...
...deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second in January. He frowns upon any ostentatious use of karate, prefers to ram his fist through ten corrugated roof tiles in the privacy of his studio...
...other non-Russian scientists were impressed, but hardly astonished, by the Soviet success. Said Dr. William H. Pickering, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena: "This was not an engineering breakthrough, but it was a demonstration of a very nice, precise operation...
Tournament of Roses Parade (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.). This year's Pasadena, Calif, splash is called "Ballads in Blossoms"-bands, horses, more than 60 floats...