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...summer sky, the elusive Palos Verdes blue butterfly was not even discovered until 1977. Three years later the rare subspecies, found only on the Palos Verdes peninsula south of Los Angeles, was placed on the Federal Government's list of endangered species. Then in 1983 the city of Rancho Palos Verdes opened a new playing field in a park where locoweed had provided a habitat for the extraordinary insect. That was the last anyone saw of the blue butterfly...
...tiny creature lives on in court. The U.S. Attorney's office has charged Rancho Palos Verdes with criminal violation of the 1973 endangered- species law; the city could face up to $20,000 in fines. Mayor Mel Hughes believes the feds are just looking for a scapegoat to blame for the butterfly's disappearance. Says Hughes: "We just happened to be there holding the smoking park...
...hottest high-tech toy on the market, although it has been condemned by critics for promoting violence. Now the game's realism appears to have cost a young player his life. One night last week Leonard Falcon, 19, and three young friends were darting about Central Elementary % School in Rancho Cucamonga, a suburban town 45 miles east of Los Angeles, zapping each other with the beams from their guns. During the mock combat, Falcon jumped from behind bushes, assumed a shooting stance and fired his plastic pistol at an obscure figure. In the next instant Falcon was killed, after...
...collection of critters has evolved more or less spontaneously. Two of the most senior Reagan pets are dogs that date back to his days as an ex-Governor and a President-in-waitin g. Millie, a Labrador- setter mix, came in the '70s with Lee Clearwater, a caretaker of Rancho del Cielo who died last year; next Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever. (Later that year they gave Victory's brother to George and Barbara Bush during...
...plaques commemorate them: at Royal Birkdale in England, where a particular six-iron took the British Open; at Cherry Hills near Denver, where they told him he was too far behind in the U.S. Open, so he drove the first green, a par four, and won. A monument at Rancho Park records the 12 he made on a single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly straight down." Another time, in Melbourne...