CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 21, 1990 | SCOTT LAWRENCE
Students and teachers from the Hueneme Elementary School District will visit Bulgaria despite political unrest in the capital city of Sofia, officials said. Twenty students and six teachers from Blackstock and E.O. Green junior high schools will tour the Eastern bloc country as part of an exchange that began last year. Parents had been concerned about violence in the country, Blackstock Principal Tom Haas said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 24, 1999 | BRENDA LOREE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The McGrath family has carved a wide swath in the county's agricultural history over the last 130 years. There's even a street or two and a state park named after them. The first McGrath, an Irish immigrant named Dominick, began farming in the county in 1871, and McGraths have been growing food ever since. Dominick had 13 children, most of whom became farmers.
NEWS
August 21, 1991 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Pope John Paul II, who embarked in high spirits on a swing through Eastern Europe a week ago, grimly returned home Tuesday, praising former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and praying that liberalizing reforms in the Soviet Union survive his fall. "Faced with the news that comes from the Soviet Union, our prayers become even more intense to ask God that that great country may be spared further tragedy.
SPORTS
November 20, 1985 | MIKE DOWNEY, Times Staff Writer
All right, all you 8-foot foreign exchange students from Bulgaria, all you point-makers and point-shavers, all you funky dunkers from inner-city projects and precision chest-passers from suburban driveways, all you Cal States and Loyolas and Central Northern A&M Wesleyans, all you patent-leathered assistant coaches and itchy-trigger-fingered clock operators, and all you strategy-conscious, press-credentialed ("What were you thinking about when you took the shot?") inquiring minds out there.
MAGAZINE
March 7, 2004 | Linda Marsa, Linda Marsa is a regular contributor to The Times' Health section.
Stephen Quake has the full lips and startling blue eyes of a cherub in a Renaissance painting, and the only sign that he is old enough to teach at a top academic institution is his corona of thinning curls. Wearing an olive-green golf shirt, loosely fitting khaki pants and sandals--the equivalent of formal attire among Caltech's lab rats--he ushers his visitor into an office where papers are stacked precariously high.