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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-sp-4068-story.html
PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP : Davison Blanks Eagles for 15th Win; Redondo Clinches Share of Title
PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP : Davison Blanks Eagles for 15th Win; Redondo Clinches Share of Title Redondo High baseball Coach Harry Jenkins called it “vintage Davison.” Nothing new about that. So far this season, that’s all Redondo pitcher Scott Davison has shown opponents. The senior right-hander was on his game again Wedne...
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Miraleste Carries Bay Hopes in the CIF Swimming, Diving
Miraleste Carries Bay Hopes in the CIF Swimming, Diving Only one of six South Bay high schools figures to make a splash when the CIF-Southern Section swimming and diving playoffs begin today at 12:30. Pioneer League boys champion Miraleste High in the 2-A Division could improve on last year’s third-place finish. But fi...
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PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP
PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP Banning 10, Carson 8--The Pilots kept their Marine League title hopes alive with the victory at Carson. Banning improved to 11-2 in league and remained one game ahead of San Pedro in the league standings. Banning (15-7 overall) plays San Pedro (10-3 in league) Monday. Banning starter Ricardo Berna...
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Cool-Hand Ouzts Comes Through for Moorpark in 3-2 Win
Cool-Hand Ouzts Comes Through for Moorpark in 3-2 Win Cedric Maxwell would have been waving and twirling that towel. Malia Ouzts, though, just wanted to cool herself off. She repeatedly rubbed her face with a wet cloth after the Moorpark College softball game, wiping off the dirt and grime and mopping sweat from her fo...
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Lewis, Johnson Near Agreement on 3 Meetings
Lewis, Johnson Near Agreement on 3 Meetings Carl Lewis’ manager, Joe Douglas of the Santa Monica Track Club, said Wednesday that reports of Lewis and Canada’s Ben Johnson, world record-holder in the 100 meters, meeting in a series of three races this summer in Europe are premature. But he indicated that the possibility...
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Owners of the San Bernardino Spirits baseball...
Owners of the San Bernardino Spirits baseball... Owners of the San Bernardino Spirits baseball club of the Class A California League want to expand their success to basketball. Hank Stickney, president of the board of directors, said he had forwarded a $25,000 check to apply for a franchise in the Continental Basketbal...
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Bart Kalbach, a center on the San...
Bart Kalbach, a center on the San... Bart Kalbach, a center on the San Diego State football team, was arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol in connection with a weekend accident near Winterhaven, Calif., that has left him bedridden with a broken back. It is too early to tell if Kalbach’s...
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BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : PERSPECTIVES ON GROWTH : Public Transit Is His Solution
BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : PERSPECTIVES ON GROWTH : Public Transit Is His Solution He came here only a few years ago, but Sol Bleiweis--born in Poland, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and a New Yorker since 1947--considers Orange County his home, personally and professionally. For a livi...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-ss-4352-story.html
BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EXECUTIVES & POLITICIANS : Builders Make a Name for Themselves
BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EXECUTIVES & POLITICIANS : Builders Make a Name for Themselves When people think business in Orange County, they still think developers. Half of the executives chosen as most influential by their peers in The Times’ executive outlook survey are bu...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-ss-4353-story.html
BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EXECUTIVES & POLITICIANS : ‘Nobody’ Tops List in County Politics
BUSINESS PULSE : ORANGE COUNTY ISSUES & ATTITUDES : THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EXECUTIVES & POLITICIANS : ‘Nobody’ Tops List in County Politics Roscoe Bowen, general manager of Santa Ana Nissan, agreed to play a game of word association. Each time an Orange County politician was named, Bowen would respond with the first thou...
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Hueneme Cultural Center Loses 2 Key Artists
Hueneme Cultural Center Loses 2 Key Artists The director of the Port Hueneme Cultural Center and his top assistant have resigned; the last theatrical production of the civic auditorium’s current season has been canceled, and Plexus Dance Theatre, the center’s dance troupe, plans to open its next season in Santa Paula. ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-vw-3859-story.html
Westside’s Best kept Secret
Westside’s Best kept Secret Think of it as the Unknown Magazine, like the Unknown Comic with the paper bag on his head. Or maybe as the Magazine That Wasn’t There. It’s LA West, a local city publication with a circulation second only to Los Angeles magazine. And it is virtually unknown, except to the Westside residents...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-vw-3977-story.html
Testing Centers : Free Screenings for High Blood Pressure Offered
Testing Centers : Free Screenings for High Blood Pressure Offered The American Heart Assn. estimates that 54 million American adults suffer from high blood pressure and that nearly one-half of them don’t even know it. Elevated blood pressure is among the predominant risk factors of stroke or heart attack, the associati...
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‘It’s What You Know’ : Time and Time Again, Clockmaker, 84, Triumphs
‘It’s What You Know’ : Time and Time Again, Clockmaker, 84, Triumphs The uneven passage of time has treated Miles Reist gently. Time has provided the 84-year-old clockmaker with a comfortable living, a daily challenge and a status among the socially elite of Berks County. In the 70 years that Reist has preserved the tr...
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A Tool for Athletes : Meditation Helps in Achieving Top Form
A Tool for Athletes : Meditation Helps in Achieving Top Form In sports, you’re in the “zone” when you make the impossible look easy--when you swing at a golf ball and it goes straight down the fairway, or when the tennis ball zings crisply off your racquet, just where you aimed it. The zone is a mysterious mental and p...
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39 Students Awarded Merit Scholarships
39 Students Awarded Merit Scholarships Thirty-nine high school students from the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys and Ventura County are among 6,000 recipients of Merit Scholarships in 1988. The nonprofit National Merit Scholarship Corp., founded in 1955, selects students based on outstanding academic and extracu...
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Santa Monica : Panel to Study Gang Issues
Santa Monica : Panel to Study Gang Issues Concerned about the effects of the Los Angeles Police Department’s recent crackdown on gangs, the City Council on Tuesday decided to establish a staff “working group” on gangs and gang-related problems in Santa Monica. “The gang sweeps in South Los Angeles concerned me if the p...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-12-we-4182-story.html
Notebook / Ray Ripton : Ex-Santa Monica High Grid Star May Be Near End of Pro Career
Notebook / Ray Ripton : Ex-Santa Monica High Grid Star May Be Near End of Pro Career Mel Kaufman, linebacker for the 1988 Super Bowl-champion Washington Redskins and a former Santa Monica High School star, may be nearing the end of his professional career. A United Press International story by Will Dunham from the Reds...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3139-story.html
MUSIC REVIEW : Battle Gives Elegant Recital in Pasadena
MUSIC REVIEW : Battle Gives Elegant Recital in Pasadena By any measurement, Kathleen Battle is a major singer in the prime of her artistry. Her career spans the globe, but its principal bailiwicks are those corridors of power found in New York, London and Vienna/Salzburg. In these places, as everywhere, Battle can appa...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3147-story.html
FIRST OFF . . .
FIRST OFF . . . Tickets will go on sale Monday for Michael Jackson’s first Southern California solo concert appearances Nov. 7 and 8 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine. According to a spokesman for concert promoter Avalon Attractions, Jackson ticket sales will follow a more traditional routine rather than the ela...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3151-story.html
Pop Music Reviews : Powerful Protest Songs From Tracy Chapman
Pop Music Reviews : Powerful Protest Songs From Tracy Chapman Submitted for your approval: A young black woman on stage alone with an acoustic guitar; song titles like “I Was Born to Fight” and “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution”; lyrics railing against police, conspicuous consumers and show-biz opportunists who would “turn me...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3152-story.html
MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Riders’ Storms With a Wild, Comic Intensity
MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Riders’ Storms With a Wild, Comic Intensity “Riders of the Storm” (selected theaters) is a surprise: a little ragged blast of a science-fiction film that packs more energy and ideas in its shots than many pictures twice its size. It won’t be to everyone’s taste; some will find it either crude, misogynis...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3154-story.html
STAGE REVIEW : ‘Moonchildren’: College Roomies, Circa ’68
STAGE REVIEW : ‘Moonchildren’: College Roomies, Circa ’68 The first thing that anyone following the growth of the Friends and Artists Theatre Ensemble should notice is that their new show, Michael Weller’s “Moonchildren,” is not Swiss absurdism or German expressionism. The young company tackled the former with its firs...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3162-story.html
MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Penitentiary III’ Unrepentantly Earthy
MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Penitentiary III’ Unrepentantly Earthy Within the first few minutes of the raw and dynamic “Penitentiary III” (citywide), writer-director Jamaa Fanaka deftly maneuvers boxer Too Sweet Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) back into prison. Having been slipped a mind-bending strength-enhancing drug during a match...
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****Excellent ***Good **Fair *Poor : <i> Recent releases, reviewed by Times critics.</i> : MOVIES
****Excellent ***Good **Fair *Poor : <i> Recent releases, reviewed by Times critics.</i> : MOVIES *** “The Family Game” Sony/Japan Society. $59.95. 1984. Yoshimitsu Morita’s film is perhaps the first contemporary Japanese picture to spoof middle-class family life so outrageously (yet subtly). It becomes increasingly li...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3172-story.html
La Cienega Area
La Cienega Area Richard Milani and Peter Nagy manipulate the hyper-real, out-of-focus, schematic representation associated with media reproduction processes such as color separation, electronic transmission of imagery and Ben Day dotting. They use the format to comment on the information glut and the technology that du...
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica New Zealand artist Boyd Webb was barely known here a year ago, but after three solo shows and various group exhibitions, he seems to have been around forever. L.A.'s latest look at Webb isn’t the same old thing, however. He’s inaugurating a brand new gallery with recent color photographs of wildly improbab...
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Downtown
Downtown Local abstract sculptor Jay Willis shows a dozen or so maquettes and one full-scale metal work. An heir to David Smith’s unpredictable gravity centers and Anthony Caro’s jumbled geometry, Willis made his mark with entertaining primary and pastel painted sculptures that tip and balance, pun and play. Maybe it’s...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3177-story.html
Wilshire Center
Wilshire Center James Hueter continues to pursue his career-long fascination with the edge. In painted constructions he seamlessly abuts two school-of-Diebenkorn panels against a very thin central filament of glass through which we see strips of copper or surfaces painted in hushed hues. In smaller mixed-media works, t...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-ca-3347-story.html
Instrumentalists to Audition for Youth Orchestra
Instrumentalists to Audition for Youth Orchestra High school instrumentalists from Orange and Los Angeles counties may audition for the South Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra during the last two weeks of May. The Youth Orchestra is a new joint venture between the Orange County High School of the Arts and the South Coast ...
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S.D. Orchestra Feels Lack of Music Director
S.D. Orchestra Feels Lack of Music Director A year ago there was no San Diego Symphony. Symphony Hall had been dark for an entire season because of the management’s lockout of the players, and prospects for the orchestra’s resurrection were slight. When the symphony actually opened its 1987-88 season last fall, there w...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3101-story.html
Sentra Securities Is Named in Complaint Involving 3 Clients
Sentra Securities Is Named in Complaint Involving 3 Clients Sentra Securities Corp., a San Diego-based securities broker-dealer, has been named in a civil complaint filed against three Sentra clients who have admitted to using an insider tip to benefit from stock market trades made on Aug. 20, 1986, the Securities and ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3107-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - H. S. Watson in Anaheim has won a $136,175 contract from the Army to supply 6,500 companion flanges for use...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3108-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - Whittaker in North Hollywood has won a $326,949 contract from the Air Force to supply valves for use in F-1...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3109-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - Emerson Electric in Calabasas has won two Army contracts to provide power supply units, one for $1.76 milli...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3112-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton has won two contracts, one for $2.84 million and the other for $215,000, from th...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3116-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - Holmes & Narver in Orange has won a $604,000 contract from the State Department to provide construction wor...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3118-story.html
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - Puga Engineering in Los Angeles has won a $312,000 contract from the Air Force to supply 4,800 shroud suppo...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3126-story.html
Ted Miller was named controller of the...
Ted Miller was named controller of the... Ted Miller was named controller of the Orange County Federal Credit Union, based in Santa Ana. Before his appointment, Miller was the institution’s internal auditor. The credit union, with more than $140 million in assets, serves employees of county government, private industry...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3128-story.html
Japanese Tour Santa Ana Med Center With Eye on Long-Term Health Care : MEDICAL
Japanese Tour Santa Ana Med Center With Eye on Long-Term Health Care : MEDICAL United Western Medical Center in Santa Ana served duck, rice and considerable information about long-term skilled nursing this week to a group of 31 Japanese business people who were eager to learn all they could about how Americans care for...
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Albion International Resources, a Laguna Hills oil...
Albion International Resources, a Laguna Hills oil... Albion International Resources, a Laguna Hills oil and gas company, reported that it lost $6,815 during the first quarter. It lost $47,992 for the comparable period last year. Revenue dropped 3%, to $79,364 from $81,906 a year earlier.
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It’s Not What It Was, but BBB Has Gone Back Into Business
It’s Not What It Was, but BBB Has Gone Back Into Business Six months after the Better Business Bureau of Los Angeles and Orange counties closed its offices, the bureau’s operation has been revived--albeit in a skeletal form. With no listing in the phone book and many directory assistance operators still telling callers...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3187-story.html
Justice Dept. Joins Suit Alleging Big Overcharges by McDonnell
Justice Dept. Joins Suit Alleging Big Overcharges by McDonnell The federal government has joined defense whistle-blower Rod Stillwell in making new allegations that McDonnell Douglas fraudulently overcharged the Army by up to $175 million on the Apache attack helicopter program. The suit seeks total damages of up to $7...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3190-story.html
Cineplex Unveils Studio Tour Plans : Company Also Says It Will Build Theater Chain in U.K.
Cineplex Unveils Studio Tour Plans : Company Also Says It Will Build Theater Chain in U.K. Cineplex Odeon Corp., the 50% partner in MCA’s ambitious plan to build a studio tour attraction in central Florida, on Thursday gave its shareholders a first glimpse at the $450-million project, which has been kept under tight wr...
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Early Easter, Bad Weather Blamed for Retail Sales Dip
Early Easter, Bad Weather Blamed for Retail Sales Dip Retail sales fell 0.6% in April, the first setback in six months, with the decline blamed on an early Easter, bad weather and a bigger federal tax bite for some people. The Commerce Department said consumers spent a seasonally adjusted $131.6 billion at retail store...
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Textron Is First U.S. Firm to Land Airbus Job
Textron Is First U.S. Firm to Land Airbus Job A subsidiary of Textron Inc. on Thursday became the first U.S. firm to win a major airframe contract for the European Airbus, the civil airliner project that the U.S. government says is unfairly subsidized. The $700-million subcontract to build components for a new broadspa...
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LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES Guenter E. Ksionski has been named vice president and medical director at Vestar, a biopharmaceutical company in San Dimas. He previously was director of international clinical research for Schering-Plough Corp., Kenilworth, N.J.
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Federal Contracts Report is a summary of...
Federal Contracts Report is a summary of... Federal Contracts Report is a summary of prime contracts in excess of $25,000 which the federal government has recently awarded to recipients in the Los Angeles area. - NI Industries in Los Angeles has won a $232,286 contract from the Army to provide research and development....
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Big Board Hires Outside Sleuths to Look Into Problem : Who, If Anyone, Broke Rules on Short Sales?
Big Board Hires Outside Sleuths to Look Into Problem : Who, If Anyone, Broke Rules on Short Sales? Agatha Christie might have called it “The Mystery of the Short Sell.” It is a puzzle so perplexing that a determined New York Stock Exchange has hired outside sleuths to try to crack it. One part of the mystery is whether...
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U.S. Begins Suit Against Navistar
U.S. Begins Suit Against Navistar Navistar International Corp. sold off its money-losing Wisconsin Steel subsidiary to avoid paying multimillion-dollar pension benefits to workers, the government’s pension insurance agency contended Thursday as the trial began in its suit against Navistar. The Pension Benefit Guaranty ...
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Sargent Industries, Huntington Park, has won a...
Sargent Industries, Huntington Park, has won a... Sargent Industries, Huntington Park, has won a $31,504 contract from the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio, to supply one or more manifold assemblies.
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Garrett Airesearch, Torrance, has won a $30,130...
Garrett Airesearch, Torrance, has won a $30,130... Garrett Airesearch, Torrance, has won a $30,130 contract from the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio, to supply 103 secondary flyweights.
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-fi-3316-story.html
Teac Corp. of America, Montebello, has won...
Teac Corp. of America, Montebello, has won... Teac Corp. of America, Montebello, has won a $32,319 contract from the Air Force to supply 76 board assemblies.
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-li-3342-story.html
Romance in a Business Card? YES Indeed
Romance in a Business Card? YES Indeed The ticket to romance in Orange County may be your business card if you don’t mind mixing a little business with pleasure. Do a little networking, pick up a few phone numbers and, if you don’t want to hire me, then how about a little dinner for two? That’s the idea behind the YES ...
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She’ll Move Into Your New Digs and Unpack--for You
She’ll Move Into Your New Digs and Unpack--for You It’s the stuff dreams are made of. You buy the new house or sign the new lease and wash your hands of the whole business--maybe even take off on vacation. And while you’re gone, someone else packs your belongings, supervises the movers, lines the shelves, washes the di...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-13-me-3048-story.html
Supervisors Will Review Claims of County Jail Abuse
Supervisors Will Review Claims of County Jail Abuse The Board of Supervisors, responding to a rising tide of public concern over recent complaints of violence in the county jail system, announced Thursday that it will review all claims of excessive force by sheriff’s deputies in the jails. Board Chairman George Bailey ...
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Police Move to Calm Latino Liaison Uproar : Santa Ana Go-Between Had Departed Abruptly
Police Move to Calm Latino Liaison Uproar : Santa Ana Go-Between Had Departed Abruptly When Jose Vargas, the Santa Ana Police Department’s link to the city’s burgeoning Latino community, took a sudden leave of absence last month, the local Spanish-language press wanted to know why. “Donde esta (Where is) Jose Vargas? "...
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Local News in Brief : Westminster : Police Flush, Arrest a Burglary Suspect
Local News in Brief : Westminster : Police Flush, Arrest a Burglary Suspect Alerted by a suspicious neighbor, police ran down and arrested a man suspected of breaking into a house in the 15900 block of Plumwood Avenue. Police alleged that the man may have committed at least four other burglaries in the city. Westminste...
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Sewage Spill Closes Part of Ocean Beach
Sewage Spill Closes Part of Ocean Beach More than 21,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the San Diego River on Thursday, closing the beach where the river empties in Ocean Beach, the County Department of Health Services said. Rocks and asphalt blocking a sewer main forced sewage to spill from a manhole in the 4200 bloc...
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Police Had Been Tipped to Robbery Plan : Heavily Armed Man Arrested Near Bank
Police Had Been Tipped to Robbery Plan : Heavily Armed Man Arrested Near Bank Santa Ana police Thursday arrested a 26-year-old Upland man armed with two loaded automatic pistols, two fully automatic assault rifles and four belts of ammunition with 100 rounds each. Police said the man, identified as Jack Alvarez, had be...
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Union Blames Nassco Accident on Hoist : Claims Firm Failed to Inspect Equipment in Incident That Injured 6
Union Blames Nassco Accident on Hoist : Claims Firm Failed to Inspect Equipment in Incident That Injured 6 Union officials at National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. charged Thursday that the failure of an uninspected hoist caused the accident in which a 22-ton propeller shaft being installed on a Navy destroyer plunged abou...
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Union Bank Tower Sold to Partnership
Union Bank Tower Sold to Partnership American Trading Real Estate Partners on Wednesday sold the 22-story Union Bank building at 525 B St. for about $50 million, according to a spokeswoman for the San Diego-based real estate company that handled the transaction. Business Real Estate Brokerage Co., which represented bot...
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NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: TODAY AND YESTERDAY : Seton Hall, Like Old Days, Is Standing Tall
NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: TODAY AND YESTERDAY : Seton Hall, Like Old Days, Is Standing Tall Richie (the Cat) Regan was watching television this week when he heard the words he could hardly believe. “Little old Seton Hall?” he said. “Little old Seton Hall? “ Those words did not sit well with Regan, who got his nicknam...
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica Once again Susan Rankaitis presents enormous photo-based images that combine bits and pieces of technology and human experience in a dark and light jumble of Cubist space. They mimic the fragmentation of the contemporary mind. Her newest works are increasingly lush, with metallic color adding a sensuous in...
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Morton Downey Jr. Scuffles With Television Crew Seeking Interview
Morton Downey Jr. Scuffles With Television Crew Seeking Interview Incendiary talk show host Morton Downey Jr. reportedly struck a soundman in the head with a microphone Thursday when a television crew from the show “Inside Edition” confronted him for a surprise interview outside his New York office. The crew had hoped ...
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Morton Downey Jr.--The Mouth Goes on the Record
Morton Downey Jr.--The Mouth Goes on the Record In a world of few absolutes, TV talk-show host Morton Downey Jr. has given us one. His “Morton Downey, Jr. Sings” is the worst album of the ‘80s. Absolutely. Oh, there may be a record hidden in some dusty garage in some dark, lonely corner of this great land that is more ...
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Riot Follows Michigan NCAA Win : Michigan Fans’ 5-Hour Rampage Causes Damage, Injuries
Riot Follows Michigan NCAA Win : Michigan Fans’ 5-Hour Rampage Causes Damage, Injuries Thousands of fans went on a wild, five-hour rampage in the streets early today to celebrate Michigan’s first NCAA basketball championship, leading to eight arrests, widespread property damage and several injuries. It took riot-equipp...
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Disney & Oscar Live Happily Ever After . . .
Disney & Oscar Live Happily Ever After . . . A flap over Snow White’s appearance on the Academy Awards telecast last week ended Thursday, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologized to the Walt Disney Co. for using the fairy-tale character in a 10-minute song-and-dance routine without first obtaining ...
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Stadium to Be Razed : The Last Faithful Fans Take a Seat at Kezar
Stadium to Be Razed : The Last Faithful Fans Take a Seat at Kezar The bleachers at Kezar Stadium were chopped up and sold for $20 a plank when 1,500 football fans showed up to say farewell to the decrepit stucco pile built in 1925. The stadium, abandoned by the San Francisco 49ers in 1971 when they moved to Candlestick...
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Gulf & Western Wants Buyer for Finance Division : Paramount’s Parent Plans to Change Name, Focus on Entertainment, Publishing
Gulf & Western Wants Buyer for Finance Division : Paramount’s Parent Plans to Change Name, Focus on Entertainment, Publishing Gulf & Western Inc., the parent of Paramount Pictures, said Sunday that it plans to sell a finance subsidiary that accounted for 40% of its fiscal 1988 revenue in order to concentrate on its ent...
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The Elections : How the Valley Voted on Bradley
The Elections : How the Valley Voted on Bradley Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley won reelection, but no thanks to the San Fernando Valley. Bradley beat each of his challengers but captured only 40% of the vote in the four City Council districts located entirely within the Valley, according to a Times analysis of the resul...
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‘Growing Pains’ Takes a Surprising Turn
‘Growing Pains’ Takes a Surprising Turn Viewers who tuned into “Growing Pains” Wednesday night expecting their usual dose of escapist fare got a sobering surprise. Sandy, the ABC comedy’s newest regular character, got into a car accident while driving under the influence of alcohol and had to be hospitalized. He was se...
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NEW JONES ON TRACK : Young P.J. Is Trying to Follow in Dad Parnelli’s Footsteps
NEW JONES ON TRACK : Young P.J. Is Trying to Follow in Dad Parnelli’s Footsteps Auto racing people always thought that Parnelli Jones quit too soon--only 34 when he ran his last Indianapolis 500 in 1967, retiring to build a string of tire stores and compete in the occasional, casual celebrity event. Maybe it’s time for...
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Cashing In on Auto Racing : Bruce Barnes Skips the Pit Stops While Marketing Indy Drivers and Teams to Nation’s Biggest Corporations
Cashing In on Auto Racing : Bruce Barnes Skips the Pit Stops While Marketing Indy Drivers and Teams to Nation’s Biggest Corporations At first glance, the link between chili peppers and auto racing seems a bit obscure, but to Bruce Barnes it was a natural. After all, racing is a sport that appeals to the adventurous, an...
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Hitler’s Hometown in a Quandary Over Marking 100th Anniversary of His Birth
Hitler’s Hometown in a Quandary Over Marking 100th Anniversary of His Birth This pleasant town across the Inn River from the West German state of Bavaria has decidely mixed feelings about a monument established to commemorate the activities of its most famous native son. The burghers are not quite sure how they want to...
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Ewing’s Acting Strength on Stage and Off
Ewing’s Acting Strength on Stage and Off Unaccustomed to the dryness--not to mention the recent temperatures soaring past the century mark--Maria Ewing downs one glass of water after another. Otherwise, the international opera star concedes nothing to climatic discomfort. Or to any other discomfort. How she handles her...
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Uproar in Zimbabwe : Just for Once, Corruption’s a Real Scandal
Uproar in Zimbabwe : Just for Once, Corruption’s a Real Scandal As with so many good scandals, the one called “Willowgate” began unraveling with a misdirected letter. The letter and an enclosed check landed on the desk of a businessman here named Obert Mpofu. Mpofu was mystified as to why he would be entitled to a $1,9...
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Movie Reviews : A Chilling Vision in ‘Pet Sematary’
Movie Reviews : A Chilling Vision in ‘Pet Sematary’ “Pet Sematary” (citywide) finds Stephen King at his farthest out, never more simultaneously compelling and repelling, but there’s no denying that in Mary Lambert he has a director who can go the distance and make the contradiction work. No doubt King’s multitudinous f...
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‘Pet Sematary’ Buries the Competition
‘Pet Sematary’ Buries the Competition “Sometimes dead is better"--even at the box office. The Stephen King horror picture carrying that epigram, “Pet Sematary,” defied the critics and opened at blockbuster levels, grossing $12 million at 1,585 theaters, an average of $7,600 per screen. It was the biggest opening in rec...
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ABC Adds ‘Gummi Bears,’ ‘Beetlejuice’
ABC Adds ‘Gummi Bears,’ ‘Beetlejuice’ ABC said Monday that it will add two new animated series to its Saturday morning childrens’ lineup this fall--"Beetlejuice” and “The Adventures of the Gummi Bears.” The schedule, which begins Sept. 9, will also feature the returning animated series “A Pup Called Scooby Doo,” “The N...
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TV Reviews : Ordinary Adventure Tale of ‘The Forgotten’
TV Reviews : Ordinary Adventure Tale of ‘The Forgotten’ USA Network tonight debuts its World Premiere Movies with “The Forgotten"(9-11 p.m.), a story of six American MIAs who are released from the hell of Vietnam into the hell of U.S. military and political corruption. The first of 24 original movies that the cable cha...
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MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Teen Witch’: Hackneyed Plot Under a Hex
MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Teen Witch’: Hackneyed Plot Under a Hex Try this at home, kids: Watch a really preachy “Afterschool Special,” but use the remote to switch channels intermittently, being sure to hit the occasional MTV rap video, a “Bewitched” rerun or two, and plenty of commercials in which pretty young people hold bran...
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Japanese Buy Hotel Bel-Air for $100 Million
Japanese Buy Hotel Bel-Air for $100 Million The legendary Hotel Bel-Air, a bougainvillea-bordered haven for show business celebrities and European royalty seeking privacy and elegance, is being sold to a Japanese investment group for more than $100 million, the hotel’s current owners announced Monday. The per-room purc...
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Viacom, Gulf & Western Discuss Merger
Viacom, Gulf & Western Discuss Merger Television giant Viacom International and Gulf & Western, the owner of Paramount Pictures, have told industry analysts they are discussing a potential merger or other combination, and Viacom stock shot up $3 a share Friday to $52. The flurry came as observers continued to await a b...
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In the Matter of Locke vs. Eastwood
In the Matter of Locke vs. Eastwood Sondra Locke says the telephone call came early in the morning on April 3. It was Clint Eastwood on the line. He said they needed to talk, and he hurried over to the sprawling Bel-Air house that the two had shared intermittently since 1980. The couple’s conversation that morning was ...
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H-Bomb Lost at Sea in ’65 Off Okinawa, U.S. Admits
H-Bomb Lost at Sea in ’65 Off Okinawa, U.S. Admits U.S. officials acknowledged Monday that a Navy warplane carrying a hydrogen bomb rolled off the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1965 and sank in the ocean 70 miles from Okinawa. The plane, the pilot and the weapon--lost in 16,200 feet of water off the Japanese island--h...
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Greg Mathews, St. Louis Cardinal left-hander, will...
Greg Mathews, St. Louis Cardinal left-hander, will... Greg Mathews, St. Louis Cardinal left-hander, will undergo surgery on his pitching elbow later this week and will miss the remainder of the season. The surgery will transfer ligaments from Mathews’ right wrist to his left elbow, Cardinal spokesman Kip Ingle said. Ma...
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Clippers’ Owner Wants New Stadium
Clippers’ Owner Wants New Stadium The owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise, Donald T. Sterling, said Wednesday after a meeting with Mayor Tom Bradley and Coliseum Commission President Richard Riordan that unless an $85-million new indoor arena is built to replace the Sports Arena, the Clippers will mo...
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Music and Dance Reviews : Joffrey Ballet in Ashton Program
Music and Dance Reviews : Joffrey Ballet in Ashton Program A poet brought to his end by conflicting loves, a Chaplinesque dandy trying to make peace between his bride and jilted girlfriend, a trio of sleek geometric figures--these subjects as explored by Frederick Ashton gave the Joffrey Ballet program an arresting foc...
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Woody Shaw, 44; Jazz Trumpeter
Woody Shaw, 44; Jazz Trumpeter Woody Shaw, the trumpeter who lost his left arm in a freak subway accident in February and who had been plagued for years by blindness, died of kidney failure Wednesday in a New York City hospital. He was 44. Shaw, whose 1978 recording of “Rosewood” was voted the No. 1 jazz record in the ...
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UCI Chooses Head of East Asian Department : Author and Top Chinese-Poetry Scholar Pauline Yu Lured From Columbia University
UCI Chooses Head of East Asian Department : Author and Top Chinese-Poetry Scholar Pauline Yu Lured From Columbia University One of the nation’s top Chinese-poetry scholars has been named chairman of UC Irvine’s long-planned department of East Asian languages and literature, which will offer classes begining next fall. ...
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Christian Bros. Winery Is Sold to Heublein
Christian Bros. Winery Is Sold to Heublein Christian Brothers, a 107-year-old Napa Valley winery owned by a Catholic teaching order, was acquired Tuesday by the Heublein division of Grand Metropolitan PLC of Great Britain in the largest winery sale in U.S. history. Both sides declined to disclose the price, but sources...
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Of Jews and Germans: The Conflict Unresolved : THE LATE-SUMMER PASSION OF A WOMAN OF MIND <i> by Rebecca Goldstein (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18.95; 261 pp.</i> ; <i> 3557-0398L38) </i>
Of Jews and Germans: The Conflict Unresolved : THE LATE-SUMMER PASSION OF A WOMAN OF MIND <i> by Rebecca Goldstein (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18.95; 261 pp.</i> ; <i> 3557-0398L38) </i> The time hasn’t come yet where “typical” national character-traits assigned to foreigners in novels are taking a turn to the radically...
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Blast Burns 10 Homes; 2 Die : Gas Explosion at Crash Site of Runaway Train
Blast Burns 10 Homes; 2 Die : Gas Explosion at Crash Site of Runaway Train At least two people died and 25 were injured this morning when a fireball from a ruptured gasoline line engulfed homes and outraced fleeing children in the same low-income neighborhood where a killer, runaway freight train ripped through a row o...
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MOVIES
MOVIES A burglar seemingly in search of glory broke into the Montclair, N.J., home of Olympia Dukakis and stole the Oscar statuette she won last year for best supporting actress in “Moonstruck.” The Oscar was stolen May 19 from its place in Dukakis’ kitchen, but the name plate was left behind. Nothing else seemed to be...
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Ultralight Flight Over Berlin Wall : Daring Escape to West Told
Ultralight Flight Over Berlin Wall : Daring Escape to West Told Two West Germans appear to have staged one of the most audacious escapes ever from East Berlin by swooping over the Berlin Wall in ultralight aircraft to snatch their East German brother and bring him to the West. According to Ingo and Holger Bethke’s acco...
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Guard Adds Armed Troops to Border Vigil
Guard Adds Armed Troops to Border Vigil Escalating their role in narcotics and alien interdiction, California National Guard troops have begun armed operations along the U. S.-Mexico border in cooperation with federal and local law-enforcement agencies. The deployment of unarmed Guard units at U. S. ports of entry last...
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CITY SECTION BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP : A Cautious Battery Defuses Tagliaferri’s Explosive Bat
CITY SECTION BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP : A Cautious Battery Defuses Tagliaferri’s Explosive Bat Say it ain’t so, Gino. Everyone was pulling for you. They chanted your name-- Geen-O! Geen-O! Geen-O! --every time you stepped to the plate in Thursday night’s City Section 4-A Division championship game at Dodger Stadium. The c...
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Celebrating Its 100th Year : A Frontier Dream Comes of Age for Orange County
Celebrating Its 100th Year : A Frontier Dream Comes of Age for Orange County One hundred years ago today, a bearded, one-eyed Civil War hero, erstwhile free love advocate and “Bible communist” by the name of James William Towner presided over the creation of Orange County, now a national symbol of American conservatism...
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Controversy Swirls Around Plan to Upgrade Amazon Basin Highway : BR-364: Road to Riches--or Ruin--in Brazil
Controversy Swirls Around Plan to Upgrade Amazon Basin Highway : BR-364: Road to Riches--or Ruin--in Brazil Carved from a carpet of pristine forest in the Amazonian state of Acre, this pioneer farming community depends for its existence on an umbilical link known as “the BR.” Without that link, a highway bearing the of...