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Truck buyers are young-the median age is around 33-and about one-third of new owners between the ages of 20 and 30 are women. Joan Cheek, of Simi Valley, Calif., passed along her 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass to her son, and now commutes to her job at a hospital in a 1984 Chevy S-10 pickup. Says she: "A lot of women are driving trucks now. It's the thing." Cheek finds her truck handy for carrying groceries and hauling tree trimmings to the dump. She plans to add a metal cap (average price: $270) to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pickups Make a Haul | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...film in Northern California. The Simi Valley and Los Angeles are in Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

When a neighbor knocked on the front door of Helen and Wesley LaRoza's house in Simi Valley, Calif., outside Los Angeles, he got no answer. Yet he could clearly hear the burbling sounds of water in the fiber-glass and redwood hot tub that had been installed in their backyard. So he knocked again. Finally, when no one responded, he summoned help. The police found the LaRozas floating in the water-dead. Though detectives first suspected a double suicide, the Ventura County medical examiner, Dr. Donald Kornblum, concluded otherwise: "Quite simply, they died of hyperthermia, or heatstroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooling It | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...lifetime beating the bushes in search of spiritual insight and fulfillment. It is a hard job achieving nirvana, and seems to require a great deal of sitting by babbling brooks and talking in hushed tones. For a while Siddhartha embraces worldly things, including fine raiment, sumptuous food and Malala (Simi Garewal), the woman who he decrees will be his "love teacher." Finally he grows discontent and makes his way back to the one wise person he has met, a man who poles a raft back and forth across a river. Siddhartha has learned, as it were, to flow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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