Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The city is engulfed by the fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge...
Back home, most adults don't notice these kids. Gangling Dan Voll, 18, is one of the stock boys at Pacemaker Foods in Rockford, Ill. Teresa Slowen works part time as a waitress in the Sundance Restaurant in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Curly-haired John Barker is the kid who cuts the grass in Birmingham, Mich...
DIED. John McLean Clifford, 74, former president of Curtis Publishing whose frugal reign failed to resuscitate the financially ill company, leading to the 1969 demise of its flagship magazine, the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A lawyer, Clifford became president of the Philadelphia company in 1964, inheriting bank debts totaling $37 million. Though he showed a small surplus in 1966, he was unable to stem further losses and was ousted...
...Santa Monica, Calif...
Some outsiders fear the Moslem revivalism in the revolution. But Robert Wesson, a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, sees it "not so much as medievalism as a rejection of foreign intrusion. They are not reversing modernization, but giving it a sounder basis in Iranian institutions." Wesson detects a parallel between Islam in Iran and Roman Catholicism in Poland. "There, in a country in a subrevolutionary situation, the Catholic Church is enormously popular because it is the counter to the government - it is the refuge for freedom. It has become the umbrella...