Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most momentous labor-management clash since the 1930s, and the Eisenhower Administration has contributed to the blurring. Within itself, the Administration is divided on the steel strike. Labor Secretary James Mitchell favors a settlement on almost any terms, played a behind-scenes role in California Steelmaker Edgar Kaiser's defection from steel's solid front to make a separate settlement (TIME, Nov. 9). Opposed to Mitchell are White House economic counselors led by Presidential Adviser Raymond Saulnier, who insist that the U.S. public has a stake in seeing to it that the settlement terms are non-inflationary.*Largely...
...heads of the California and New York delegations have very definite vice-Presidential nomination hopes. In addition to being a favorite son Presidential candidate, California's Governor Edmond Brown has chances at the second spot on the ticket. Although he may privately think the junior Senator from Massachusetts is the best man, Brown cannot support Kennedy without cutting his own political throat as far as 1960 is concerned...
...City News Bureau, a journalistic cooperative financed by all four Chicago dailies, launched the PR News Service, a private publicity system patterned after Muschel's brainchild and equally successful. And this year in Los Angeles, two pressagents, incorporated as Transmit, Inc., offered the same service to Southern California newspapers and radio and television stations...
...nation's TV football fans spent the afternoon frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard...
...year's guarantee of $35,000, brooding Alex Olmedo, 23, California's Peruvian-in-residence (University of Southern California), quit amateur tennis to join the pros. In a 65-match world tour, Olmedo will hazard his erratic shots against canny Old Pros Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall, a test which should quickly settle the question of whether The Chief is the flash who won the 1958 Davis Cup, or the flub who helped give it back to Australia this year...