Word: valencias
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...technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney World; and, through Disney endowments, the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Calif...
California's freewheeling real estate developers, even more than their colleagues to the east, have long been accustomed to building just about anything that would turn a profit. When their plans are good-at the vacation community of Sea Ranch, for example, or the "new town" of Valencia-they set a standard of originality and excellence for the nation. When the plans are bad, which is all too often, they result in garish commercial strips, sleazy subdivisions and industrial parks that have already turned much of the once bright land into a gray blur...
Died. Eugene A. Valencia, 51, World War II Navy air ace; of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he was attending a convention of American Fighter Aces. In 1945, Lieut. Valencia led a four-man team that destroyed 50 airborne Japanese planes in a three-month period without suffering any losses or damage. He was personally credited with bagging a record 7½ planes in a single day, scored a total of 23 kills, and was awarded the Navy Cross for his action in the South Pacific...
Whatever happened, one night of it persuaded Alfredo Ortiz, 18, and Carlos Ortiz, 17, to sign confessions. Doel Valencia, 19, repudiated his statement in the morning. The actual killing, the confessions said, was done by Angel Walker. But Angel, a one-armed ex-boxer, was too smart to talk. A grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict him. The others spent five months in jail before their day in court. Author
...favors the defendants. After two days of wrangling, the jury fails to reach a verdict. A year passes, twelve more expensive months in jail, and the defendants come to trial again. The new lawyers are a bit better, but the new judge is a lot worse. The jury sets Valencia free but convicts the Ortiz brothers of "Murder One" (first degree murder), a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence in New York State...