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...Anaïs Nin was an indefatigable diarist, a sometime poet, novelist and Spanish dancer, a Boswellian collector of literary friends and a flamboyant promoter of her small but genuine talents. Ironically, her death two years ago at age 73 preceded by only a few months the general fame she had courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar...
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...large degree they were successful, but there were still some star-struck writers in attendance. A reporter for the Santa Ana Register, for example, asked CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt for his autograph. Though the networks probably spent $200,000 on the ten-day publicity binge, the gifts (rugby shirts and overnight bags) and entertainments (trips to Tijuana and harbor cruises) of past years were notably absent...
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...left. They received permission from the Lindbergh tower to make a practice approach under instrument conditions, since Lindbergh is the only airport in the area with the sophisticated electronics for guiding instrument flights. As they circled to await the assigned time for their training maneuver, a mild Santa Ana wind was blowing off the hot, dry desert out of the east, contrary to the normal prevailing winds off the Pacific. To aid the light craft, the tower gave approval for it to use Runway 9 (the designation for a runway heading of 90°, or due east). Commercial flights...