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...Banham is plainly smitten by Los Angeles and its laissez-faire ways, the love is based on understanding. To discover the city's true dynamics, he studied old deeds, maps, reports and above all the enduring visual record of buildings set in stucco, wood and glass. In the process, he even learned to drive...
...first Juan Corona seemed an unlikely suspect. He is married and the father of four daughters who have achieved the Chicano dream of middle-class American respectability. His stucco-and-wood ranch-style house in Yuba City proudly boasts a front-window trophy that Corona won last year for float decoration in the annual Our Lady of Guadalupe parade. He is deeply devoted to the Roman Catholic Church and is a member of the Cursilistas, a group trying to revive religion among Chicanes. Said his distressed wife Glo-rida: "He was always a good husband. He treated us right, without...
They all live together in a massive twelve-room stucco-modern house on a large lot guarded by an electric gate out in Los Angeles' sprawling San Fernando Valley. The place is mammoth, flanked by a guesthouse, playhouse and servants' quarters. But there are only six bedrooms so that Michael-culture hero though he is-has to triple up with Randy and Marlon, and the other brothers are forced to share...
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is a lower-middle-class workingman's community," says City Administrator Kenneth Bolts. Unnecessarily, he adds: "We will never be a Beverly Hills...
...Ethiopian government has responded to E.L.F. tactics by declaring a state of emergency and placing most of Eritrea, with its 2,000,000 people, under military rule. Asmara, a sunny city of stucco buildings and broad piazzas that is perched atop a 7,600-ft. plateau, shows few signs of trouble. But the calm ends at the city limits. In the hope of denying food to the guerrillas, the army is moving much of the rural population, Viet Nam-style, into some 200 "fortified villages." Rebel activity has fallen off sharply since the army offensive began three months...