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...Verville, 79, pioneer aircraft designer who in 1914 with Glenn Curtiss designed the famed Curtiss Jenny, and later as a U.S. Army Air Service engineer developed the nation's first welded-fuselage fighter plane with droppable fuel tanks, the PW-1 Pursuit; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif...
...Tejada (the last name means, in Spanish, "Spears of Clay") was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940 (not, as she claims, 1942). Her father, Armand, is a Bolivian-born structural-stress engineer; her mother, Josephine, is of English stock. When Raquel was two, the Tejadas moved to La Jolla, Calif., a pretty, plasticized, middle-class community just north of San Diego. Raquel grew up in an all-American ambience that would have been a natural for a California Norman Rockwell. The family, which included Raquel's younger brother and sister, lived in a one-story stucco house near...
...Latin ridge gave her nose an unattractive hook; she was affectionately known around school as "Birdlegs." Then she began to grow in all directions, and soon became an established figure on the beauty contest circuit. She won her first local contest at 15; later she was named Miss La Jolla, Miss San Diego, and finally Maid of California. Says Don Diego, who ran another contest she captured called the Fairest of the Fair Festival: "There were prettier girls around, but none had her figure or her drive. Most girls tremble before they go onstage. Raquel never did. You could tell...
...many, the sense of failure is intensified by the extremes of the California setting. Says Behavioral Scientist Richard E. Parson, Board Chairman of La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute: "The discovery of what we've got, and what we know it is possible to have, is greater in California than anywhere else. The difference between life on the beach at sunset and life in a freeway jam is so big that it makes awareness of the discrepancy much greater...
Psychologist Carl Rogers, one of encounter therapy's pioneers and now a resident fellow at the Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla, is convinced that group-grope "is the new psychological frontier. The people here are all transients. They're saying, 'What will I do for roots?' " The answer, it seems, lies in that Holy Grail of the psyche-oriented '60s?what in California might be called MEANINTPEREL, or "meaningful interpersonal relationships...