Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Rollings of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle has set a limit of 15 minutes on his eulogies. "I remember a time," he says, "when if you didn't speak for 30 minutes, it meant you didn't care for the deceased." Episcopal Canon Howard Johnson of Alhambra, Calif., insists that caskets should be closed-"not because we are afraid to look at a dead body, but to save the cost of cosmetology...
...neither writing nor editing but getting along with people. Incongruously, for a chief operative in a notoriously efficient political organization, Klein has always been a "dirty-desk" man who seems almost constitutionally unable to arrive for an appointment on time. As a political reporter for California's Alhambra Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide. Between the various campaigns...
...quarterback who steered the U.C.L.A. Bruins to a Rose Bowl victory in 1966, himself to a Heisman Trophy as the nation's outstanding collegiate football player last year and a reported $200,000 three-year contract with the Washington Redskins; and Kathy Hanson, 21, his college sweetheart; in Alhambra, Calif...
...revolver, model 55 SA?a relatively cheap weapon that retails for $31.95?was yielding information. The serial number had been registered with the State Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau. Within minutes, the bureau's computer system came up with the pistol's original purchaser: Albert L. Hertz of Alhambra. He had bought the gun for protection in August 1965, after the Watts riot. He informed police that he had subsequently given it to his daughter, Mrs. Robert Westlake, then a resident of Pasadena. Mrs. Westlake became uneasy about having a gun in the same house with her small children...
...conflict has proved endlessly enriching. The taste for decorative, geometric art is still shown in Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...