Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Cruz, Calif...
...dashing, ebullient musician and professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Mark spends half of each year at Norfolk, polishing productions and scouting new talent. Another power behind Mary's throne is Edythe Harrison, the iron-willed president of V.O.A. A self-proclaimed promoter, she hounded-among others-her next-door neighbor Norfolk Mayor Vincent Thomas for support; the city finally built an orchestra pit in the Center Theater and refurbished it (at a combined cost of $100,000). She even, so the story goes, got a little help on the side from the Navy in transporting...
Lately the paper has begun to sprawl topographically as well as typographically. In the past two months, it has opened a local news office in Long Beach, 20 miles to the south, a news bureau in San Bernardino, 55 miles to the east, and another in Santa Barbara, 85 miles to the west-all in hopes of winning new readers in those outposts. Last week, in the boldest act of press imperialism since the New York Times launched a short-lived California edition 16 years ago, the Los Angeles paper invaded San Diego, 110 miles to the south. The Times...
...sweeps into the shabby residential Manila district of Santa Cruz in a black limousine, escorted by a busload of security guards and surrounded by political aides, cheerleaders, TV and movie stars. The crowd is enthralled by First Lady Imelda Marcos' skillful blend of political harangue and folksy charm. "I can tell the President what you need here," she says. "And you know that Imelda always gets action. "As the crowd roars its approval, Mrs. Marcos sings a couple of old favorite Filipino songs and throws jasmine garlands into the audience. Then she is off-for yet another speech...
...take her to our dentist in Venice. He referred her to a dental surgeon in Brentwood. We drove there and had the tooth extracted. Then in the afternoon the taxi company neglected to pick up our Day Care children. So I had to ferry them to our site in Santa Monica. When I returned home I found Karl waiting for me to take him to the Palisades shopping section so he could buy a jockstrap for gym and sign up for drum lessons. After that, it was back to Santa Monica to pick up Noah. Being a Broadway playwright...