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...common folk of those countries realized just how bad off they were? The average American is not an "ugly American" but a goodwill ambassador. We should not have placed any restrictions on travel or immigration. To act otherwise helps prop up dictatorial regimes and punish citizens. RON OTTENSON Rossmoor, Calif...
...move around a lot. "The children have their own lives," explains Helen Sih. "But friends have the same interests as you." Sih is one of a group of eight Chinese-American couples in their 70s and 80s who moved one by one in the 1990s from New York to Rossmoor, a retirement community in Walnut Creek, Calif. They all arrived from China in 1950, raised their children together and, for over 30 years, held monthly dances and played mah-jongg...
...Shores in Laguna Niguel, north of San Diego, where many of the armed guards at the gatehouses are ex-Marine combat veterans of the Viet Nam War. "More than likely, the presence of a guard cuts out a lot of crime," understates John Rogers, a burly guard. Nearby Rossmoor Leisure World, in Laguna Hills, is a retirement community surrounded by six-foot-high pink walls and guarded by a security force of 170 unarmed resident patrolmen led by four armed professionals. They man the community's eight carefully guarded gates and patrol its streets round the clock in radio...
Specifically designed for the elderly, with ramps instead of stairs and sitdown showers instead of bathtubs. Rossmoor will have 6,750 apartments selling at prices from $10,350 to $12,100. Purchasers must be at least 52 and must pass a physical exam designed to eliminate everyone with a contagious disease. The down payments for apartments begin at $935, and monthly payments thereafter are $95 to $105. About $10 of each monthly payment together with $200 of the down payment will go into a medical fund to be administered by Blue Cross of Southern California. The medical fund will support...
Although the first Rossmoor apartments will not be ready until April 1. eager customers (average age: 62; average income: $4,000) have already snapped up 1,319 of them. Meantime. Builder Cortese-who will turn management of Rossmoor over to a nonprofit tenants' association once the apartments are all sold-is eying sites for other Leisure Worlds near San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco. Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City...