Word: santas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brother) Raymond Long, F.S.C. Santa...
During the first five years of this decade, the placid community of Santa Barbara on Southern California's Pacific Coast witnessed nearly zero population growth. The head count of residents over the period increased a scant .58% and today stands at 72,500. Santa Barbarans have decided they like it that way. Last week they overwhelmingly approved a local proposition requiring voter approval of any city council moves that would allow the population to rise above 85,000. The referendum, as one resident put it, offered Santa Barbarans a chance "to vote on how big they want this seaside...
...University of California, Santa Cruz...
...came to $91-which included not only heating but also power for all their household appliances. The Evenstas' house is mainly heated by a wood-burning furnace backed up by a heat pump, plus a fireplace. Norm and Sirleen Ghigleri, whose Cathedralite dome nestles in California's Santa Cruz hills, reported that their January electricity bill was $41.56, while neighbors complained of paying $125 and more for power...
Died. Edward Dahlberg, 76, contentious critic, poet and author (Bottom Dogs); in Santa Barbara, Calif. The illegitimate son of a hairdresser, Dahlberg had a bleak childhood in and out of orphanages. His early angry proletarian works evolved into high-styled aphoristic essays in which he denounced contemporary life and letters in a manner reminiscent of Thoreau...