Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ritual seldom varies. On Sunday mornings in Rome's Cassia district, a slender middle-aged man accompanies his wife and son as far as the steps of the modern stone-and-glass Santa Chiara Church. He watches them enter and returns when Mass is over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
...California's San Fernando Valley that was open to blacks during the postwar real estate boom is an area near Pacoima, which real estate people mockingly referred to as the "Joe Louis Homes." In the decades since, the population of the sprawling valley, which lies just over the Santa Monica mountains north of Los Angeles, has swelled to include 1.5 million residents -but only 2.3% are black...
...least 15 of them will have become obsolete and dangerous to operate. Short of welding shut the entrances and placing the facilities under guard forever, the only solution is to dismantle them and bury the pieces. The difficulty of the task is now being underscored in the desolate Santa Susana Mountains, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, where a small Government-built experimental generator is being torn down...
Even before sponsoring his illustrious Pro-Am, Crosby had hosted a tournament known as the Rancho Santa Fe Open as early as 1936. In 1937, his first year on the pro circuit, Sam Snead won the Rancho Santa Fe for his second tour victory. When someone showed "Slamming Sammy" a photograph of himself in the New York Times, he blurted, "How'd they ever get my picture? I ain't never been to New York...
Crosby was for many years a member of Cypress Point, which was designed by Alister Mackenzie, the same architect who mapped out Augusta National. Situated on a spit of land at the base of the Santa Lucia foothills and pounded by the Pacific on all sides, Cypress Point is perhaps the most breathtaking course ever built. O.B. Keeler, the biographer of Bobby Jones, wrote that the Monterey cypress that line the fairways appeared to him as "the crystallization of the dream of an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up on absinthe...