Word: camino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Squeaky Fromme, daughter of a well-to-do aeronautical engineer in Redondo Beach, Calif., was one of the first people to join Manson's demonic tribe in 1967, after she dropped out of El Camino College in Torrance, Calif. Her life in the self-styled family revolved around drugs, depraved sex and devotion to Manson, who made her his "main lady." As she testified at his murder trial in 1971: "We were riding on the wind. You could say that it's a nonsense world of Alice in Wonderland, but it makes a lot of sense. Everybody makes...
...local college playing basketball, subsequently flunking out and then worked for a construction company. Christmas of '68 he received his draft notice a few days after enlisting in the Army. He was discharged two years later then traveled, eventually settling in California. There he enrolled at El Camino College, a two-year school in Los Angeles with a student population of 23,000, many of whom were returning veterans...
...Camino, the professors were student-oriented and interested in teaching rather than research. The lack of such interest on the part of too many professors at Harvard and the organization of the East Asian Studies Department have been big disappointments to Marton...
Across the concourse in Chicago, Dennis Pearson sits in a beach chair behind his entry, a 1967 El Camino pickup truck chromed and painted and gussied up into a real showstopper. Pearson, 26, a stocky, crew-cut body-shop owner from Louisville, began a year ago to repair the engine in his truck and maybe do a little body work. Some $6,000 and "a helluva lotta hours" later, he hitched up the truck behind his station wagon, packed in his wife Bernadene and their four-year-old daughter Zandra and entered the exhibition circuit. In Detroit he picked...
Some businesses have adopted identical blazers or color-coordinated jackets and ties for their male employees. But for the most part, men are not turned on by the new corporate look. Explains Richard Crouch, vice president of California's El Camino Bank (where the male employees voted down blazers): "Men have been in uniform for so many years that they're relishing their new freedom. After all, we just got colored shirts and wide ties...