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UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...most popular, and controversial, types of back-relief products is so-called gravity-inversion equipment, which began selling fast after Richard Gere was shown hanging heels over head in the 1980 film American Gigolo. Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., introduced the first inversion product: ankle straps now known as Gravity Boots (price: $60 to $84) that enable a sufferer to dangle from a chinning bar and relieve pressure on the spine. To go with the boots, the company sells steel-and-canvas support systems (up to $1,200) that hold users in a topsy-turvy position...
...achieve those aims for the cover and the inside illustrations, Ramp chose Matt Mahurin, a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., who has previously contributed drawings to the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Mahurin, 24, started by taking photographs, then worked paint and emulsion onto the prints, using a minimal amount of color and leaving much of the photographs visible. "I wanted to create a dreamlike effect," he says, "the feeling of seeing a photograph without the immediacy." Mahurin, who has always wanted to focus artistically...
...first shelter for battered women opened in a private home in Pasadena, Calif., in 1964. There are now approximately 800 in the country. All of them have waiting lists, and the demand is staggering. The Y.W.C.A. alone has 210 shelter or service programs such as hot lines, safe-home networks and counseling programs in 30 states. From 1978 through 1980, the Y.W.C.A. sheltered 46,100 women and children and gave counseling to 50,000 women. But they estimate they cannot accommodate 80% of those who need assistance. In a new and ironic effort to provide more services, at least...
...board. During the current World Chess Federation championship tournament, Soviet officials were playing some sort of game of their own. First Viktor Korchnoi, 52, the Soviet defector who now lives in Switzerland, was set to face U.S.S.R. Whiz Kid Gari Kasparov, 20, in a semifinal match at Pasadena City College in California. But Kasparov never showed because, it was rumored, the Soviets feared he might defect. Three days later, former World Champion Vassily Smyslov, 62, was also disqualified, for boycotting a match against Hungary's Zoltan Ribli, 31, in Abu Dhabi ostensibly because the Persian Gulf emirate...