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While the controversy was building, the man at the very center of it?Richard M. Nixon?had retired from the battle. From the Western White House, near Casa Pacifica, his oceanside home in San Clemente, the President kept in close touch with his economic advisers back in Washington. He scheduled stops in Ohio and Illinois on his return trip, during which he will undoubtedly resume a strong defense of his program. But for the time being, Nixon was content to remain serenely above the fray. He took a daily swim in his pool (a tanker had spilled oil near Nixon...
...Pacifica, Calif., they called him "Father Bob"-or just plain Bob. He had come to the seaside community just south of San Francisco in 1966 as pastor of the airy, modern church that is the nucleus of St. Peter's Roman Catholic parish. He was a Vatican II priest, no question: folk Masses, a strong parish council, an adult education program on church history and theology. But he was a bit more as well. Last week the rest of the U.S. found out what some of his parishioners have known for months: that the pretty woman and five-year...
Reaction at Pacifica was overwhelmingly in Duryea's favor. The day of McGucken's announcement, 800 parishioners assembled in St. Peter's for a show of support. When Father Bob entered, still in his clerical collar, they gave him a standing ovation. "If there was any way possible," said a formal statement from the parish council, "we would keep him as pastor. Because of our experience with Father Duryea, we feel that the church's rule on celibacy, which deprives our community of ministers such as Father Duryea, should be changed as soon as possible...
Thinking left, he said goodbye to Buckley, and moved to the University of California at Berkeley. There he served as director of drama and books for the Pacifica Foundation's FM station KPFA, arranging interviews and producing plays. He got a B.A. in English and published his first novel, The Naked Martini, which Harrison Salisbury described in a review for the Times as possessing "a certain wry wit, but 255 pages seems a long, long journey with no better company than a young adman, his bottles and his babes...
...which raised the station's annual premium from $750 to $2,200 after the first bombing-canceled its coverage. That move brought the threat of repossession of KPFT's surviving equipment. Other Houston stations became more leary than ever of sharing facilities and antenna towers with the Pacifica outlet...