Word: redwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-time writer, Erdman divides his time between his magnificent redwood contemporary home overlooking San Francisco Bay and a 40-acre ranch in Sonoma. He is well along on his fourth novel about "international corporate bribery"-which seemingly would not find a market if The Crash of '79 actually occurs. Erdman happily admits that it probably will not; he wrote the book, he says, primarily for enjoyment and secondarily "to alert people to what could happen." The hell of it is, nobody can say his doomsday scenario is flat-out impossible...
...Fisk home is "basically a little tract house," converted by Jack and Sissy into something funkier. Now the place is full of skylights, doors, windows and, outside, a gigantic hot tub made of redwood and heated by gas. Says Spacek: "It's a good way to loosen people up at parties." Guests in the tub are most likely to be artists and sculptors from the neighborhood-the Fisks do not run with the movie crowd-and the house will be spanking clean the morning after a social occasion...
...possible poolhole is a concession by the commission that it will allow pools and small redwood "spas" to be heated "for therapeutic purposes." In the future, heated pools may have to be called natatoriums, while their owners brandish doctors' certificates attesting that they are polio victims. Other Californians may have to join pool pools...
...enough. "What possible good purpose can come from this intense coverage of terrorist activity?" he demanded on the floor of the House. "Individuals of questionable mental stability will surely begin to conclude that they too can obtain national publicity and an enlarged forum for their views on redwood trees and other irrelevancies simply by attempting to gun down the President...
With the Harrises in hand, the FBI quickly shifted its attention to 625 Morse Street, a concrete house with redwood facing. About two weeks ago, a young sandy-haired man had rented the small upstairs apartment, paying the $180-per-month rent with a check signed "Charlie Adams." Later, another man-shorter and darker-briefly helped "Adams" move in along with a woman wearing slacks and a big floppy hat that completely obscured her face. Like the Harrises, "Adams" and the woman made a good first impression on their neighbors. Later, the couple were joined by a girl...