Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco you have a sense of the deteriorating quality of life. All the civility of that city is gone. I had to be escorted to the hospital parking lot when I worked late at night." In the city she found some serenity in transcendental meditation. In Santa Rosa she hardly needs...
Chester and Rhoda Bernie went to Santa Rosa recently from Los Angeles, where he sold insurance for years. In L.A., says Bernie, "there were fights on the street and parents didn't care. Our kids at school got beat up and their money taken away. But that kind of thing doesn't happen here. Kids play, but there is no violence." In Santa Rosa, the Bernies have absorbed more culture than they ever did in Los Angeles. The community turns out solidly to support the semiprofessional 75-member symphony orchestra. When Angela Davis or Jack Anderson speaks...
...made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point for an examination of the so-called community of Santa Rosa. The comic sensibility of director Michael Ritchie, who did Downhill Racer and The Candidate, is not quite as cynical as I'd like it to be, but you can't have everything...
...yearbook of Connecticut's elite Chaffee School predicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian immigrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would become the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks, Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state assembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Democratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and adviser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only...
...only the first step of a giant plot to oust the shaky moderate regime headed by Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. The radical coup failed because the Communist Party hesitated to call masses of workers into the streets as expected and because leading military sympathizers, like Admiral Antonio Rosa ("Red Rosa") Coutinho, responded to a last-minute patriotic call to duty from Costa Gomes and urged their followers not to revolt. Beyond that, the paratroopers inexplicably rebelled a day ahead of schedule, and ludicrous oversights allowed the moderates to retaliate. One group of rebels locked Air Force General Anibal...