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"The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art," an exploration of a facet of folk creativity organized by the Museum of Folk Art and the Jewish Museum in New York, is on view at the Hebrew Union College's Skirball Museum through April 27. The exhibition consists of about ceremonial and secular objects from 1720 to the present. The earliest generations of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish settlers, few in numbers, tended to assimilate their cultural patterns with those of the local population.

Manville Corp. has agreed to make additional payments of as much as $520 million over seven years to the trust set up to benefit asbestos victims. A comprehensive settlement disclosed Monday also will revamp the way claims are paid, giving priority to the most gravely ill. The plan is meant to settle about 150,000 pending claims by people injured by Manville-produced asbestos.

The Bay View Room, the Cypress Room and the Ladies Lounge with the Spanish dance mural are already gone. The rest of Stilwell Hall--the ballroom where Count Basie and Bing Crosby performed, the taproom where the beer was a nickel a glass and the bar, one of the longest on the West Coast--is still clinging to a Pacific bluff above Monterey Bay, its fate uncertain. The U.S.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in unreported incidents last year - 35% more than in 2010 - a severe trend that senior officials warned could threaten recruiting and retention of women in uniform. President Obama, reacting to the startling figures Tuesday, said he had "no tolerance" for sexual crimes in the ranks and pledged to crack down on commanders who ignored the problem. Obama said he had spoken to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and ordered that officers "up and down the food chain" get the message.

In a prelude to next week's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, and also to Father's Day, HBO offers the worthwhile "Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open." The hourlong documentary, which premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m.

Firefighters from across America beat a steady path to Ponce, Puerto Rico's No. 2 city, which was named after Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer who sought the Fountain of Youth. It was Ponce de Leon who gave the 110- by 35-mile island its name when he exclaimed Qu e puerto rico! (What a rich port!) on landing here Aug. 12, 1508. Ponce de Leon didn't discover Puerto Rico. Columbus did 15 years earlier on his second voyage to the New World. He called it San Juan Bautista.

Poke around in your car's engine and you'll probably find such things as oxygen sensors and catalytic converters that reduce smog-producing exhaust emissions. One day you also may find a Corona Discharge Device made by Litex Inc. Litex executives, including Chairman Lodwrick M. Cook, the former Arco chief executive, hope their sparkplug-like contraption will someday be ubiquitous--the ultimate jackpot for a car part in the worldwide automotive market of 400 million vehicles.

Leone & Leone Ltd., a San Juan Capistrano public relations firm, won a national award for its eight-month campaign promoting Expo '86, Vancouver's world exposition. The 3 1/2-year-old firm was the only Southern California agency to win the Public Relations Society of America's Silver Anvil Award--one of 37 presented this year. "It's the Academy Award or Emmy of our industry," said C. Michael Leone, chairman, who said the award was in the category of publicity for special events.

For a decade, Hells Angels spokesman George Christie Jr. has cultivated the image of an upstanding citizen whose motorcycle gang has been harassed by law enforcement and whose own Ventura chapter is squeaky clean. Christie ran a leg of the Olympic Torch charity relay in 1984. He hosted a barbecue for jurors after his murder-for-hire acquittal in 1987. He was a guest speaker in Ventura high school and college classes last year on the ethics of journalists and prosecutors.

SACRAMENTO - A Los Angeles state senator said Friday that the U.S. attorney's office had subpoenaed him to testify before a federal grand jury, just days after the FBI raided the Capitol office of Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello). Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) said in a statement that the testimony will take place in Los Angeles in July. "I've communicated to the U.S. attorney's office my willingness to cooperate fully," the statement said. "The U.S. attorney's office has asked that the details of their inquiry remain confidential.