World & Nation
The National Park Service has proposed landmark status for the farm of Whittaker Chambers, whose allegations about infiltration of the American government fueled the fires of the Red Scare and whose writings deeply influenced President Reagan and other conservatives.
April 17, 1988
Business
A major defense and aerospace contractor announced Thursday that it would move its national headquarters from Los Angeles to Simi Valley this summer.
Feb. 3, 1995
Communism: Charges against him tinged politics of the ‘50s. He tried for decades to clear his name.
Nov. 16, 1996
Politics
The widow of Whittaker Chambers, whose 1949 testimony helped substantiate the charges her husband had made against former State Department employee Alger Hiss of providing classified information to the Soviet Union, is dead at 86.
Aug. 23, 1986
A government advisory board has refused to grant landmark status to the farm where Whittaker Chambers said he kept the famed “pumpkin papers” linking Alger Hiss to Communist activities.
April 27, 1988
Books
As the Reagan administration wound down, it made a big-time symbolic gesture to its loyal conservative constituency.
March 2, 1997
Interior Secretary Donald P.
May 18, 1988
Even now, almost six years since the defense industry began to decline in Southern California, we are in a quandary over what will take its place.
July 12, 1995
Alger Hiss is frail now, at age 87, and his eyesight is failing.
Oct. 30, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
The Interior Department has designated as a national historic landmark a place called Pipe Creek Farm; that’s where, in 1948, Communist-turned-conservative Whittaker Chambers hid inside a hollowed-out pumpkin the microfilm that was later used to convict Alger Hiss of perjury.
May 25, 1988