Word: pomona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans, from amputees and the blind to those with spinal-cord injuries or cerebral palsy, are taking up everything from cycling and scuba diving to rock climbing and rafting. That is still a small fraction of the 37 million handicapped in the U.S. But, declares Dave Kiley, 34, of Pomona, Calif., a star wheelchair-basketball player, "the traditional stereotype of passivity is broken...
Cage has developed his theories of chance and randomness over a long spate of work with music. After leaving Pomona College as a sophomore, Cage went to Europe intending to become a writer. Instead, he studied modern music and art and returned to the United States in the mid-1930s to pursue two years of study with composer Arnold Shoenberg. It was after this stint in New York and with a new conviction that he had no ear for harmony that Cage began to usher in a new era of music...
Because his early interior plans are plotted out in extraordinary detail, Predock wins over big institutional clients despite his New Age enthusiasms. When he presented his design for a $24 million California State Polytechnic University Pomona project to the competition jury, for instance, he included floor-by-floor maps of the buildings' interior ambience -- a singular synthesis of engineering and intuition. On a low-rise roof at Pomona, he wants to plant grass and graze sheep. "They think I'm kidding," says Predock. He is smiling, but he isn't kidding...
Seybold was awarded the scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University by a selection process entirely separate from the American competition, according to the American Secretary of Rhodes Scholarship Trust and President of Pomona College David Alexander...
Under pressure from Edwards, the FBI began to look into the threats on July 17. Later that day armed men abducted Ana Maria Lopez, 31, a Guatemalan woman involved in helping Central American refugees. After warning her to stop criticizing the Salvadoran government, the kidnapers dumped her in Pomona, Calif., 25 miles east of Los Angeles. "They told her that just as people are killed in Central America, they can be killed here," says Linton Joaquin, director of the Central American Refugee Center in Los Angeles...