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...Giants. At the final game of 1978, considered the low point in a post-'50s depression, an indignant little airplane buzzed Giant Stadium towing an ultimatum: 15 YEARS OF LOUSY FOOTBALL; WE'VE HAD ENOUGH. The comeback begun on that note has at last brought the Giants to Pasadena, where they are the bright and favored stars of Super Bowl XXI (also featuring the Denver Broncos...
Even the most jaded sky watchers were intrigued last week by three remarkable discoveries reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, Calif. Two of the finds lend support to current theories about the formation of planets and of galaxies, immense islands of hundreds of billions of stars. But a third -- two gigantic, well-defined arcs of light, as well as fragments of another -- cannot be explained to anyone's satisfaction...
...over the past decade, the thinness of L.A.'s art institutions began to cause heartburn. There had been a contemporary museum in Pasadena, but it collapsed for lack of money in 1974 and was acquired by the industrialist Norton Simon; it now houses his magnificent collection of old-master and 19th century painting. This left LACMA as the main showplace for current art. But through the '70s its treatment of contemporary painting and sculpture had been sporadic. Some collectors and artists came to feel a new museum was needed...
...Francisco, California; Jonathan S. Leff '90 of Pennypacker Hall and Atlanta, Georgia; Karen W. Levy '89 of Dudley House and Potomac, Maryland; Emily Mieras '90 of Canaday Hall and Lexington, Massachusetts; Teresa A. Mullin of Canaday Hall and Allentown, Pennsylvania; Kristin L. Olson '88 of Winthrop House and Pasadena, California; Joseph C. Tedeschi '90 of Thayer Hall and Brooklyn, New York; Julio R. Varela '90 of Holworthy Hall and New York, New York; Benjamin Waldman '89 of Lowell House and Plainview, New York; Michael E. Wall '90 of Hurlbut Hall and Malibu, California...
...soon as I arrived at LAX, I phoned my great-uncle in Pasadena. "Uncle!" I cried. "In this time of national emergency, with the specter of another failed Presidency on the horizon, can I count on you to do your part as an American citizen...