Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million to a deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California-as an all-out backer of Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy...
...Governors, California's Pat Brown now looms as the most important politically-because of his impressive record, his state's growing importance and the large number of delegates he will control. Once he seemed flattered to be discussed as a favorite son: now he not only takes seriously some talk of a vice-presidential nomination but listens to speculation about a presidential lightning bolt. And like most of the other seven Catholic Democratic Governors, Pat Brown has no interest at all in advancing the candidacy of front-running Catholic Jack Kennedy, since obviously two Catholics do not make...
With New York in Republican hands, it is California's Brown, Pennsylvania's Lawrence, New Jersey's Meyner, Michigan's Williams and the other big-delegation state leaders who can do much to set the trend at the start of the Los Angeles convention. And in the floor fighting that follows, they and their favorite sons could become the most sought-after Democratic Governors in many a convention year...
Golden Age. War's end marked the beginning of the golden age of U.S. oceanography. For the first time in its life, Woods Hole had enough money. More Navy millions went to California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which matches Woods Hole in growth, and claims, with California confidence, the whole Pacific Ocean as its domain. Dr. Roger Revelle, director of Scripps, is an enormous man (6 ft. 4 in.) who looks as if he were specially designed, both physically and temperamentally, to study the Pacific Ocean. He asks such large questions as: "Where did the sea water...
Result could be that air temperature would increase by 1° to 2° Centigrade. "Southern California might dry up completely if the temperature rose in the way we think it might-making it an impossible place to live, rather than almost impossible the way it is now." The ocean will also grow warmer, and will be forced to release dissolved carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This will increase the greenhouse effect. At some point in this chain reaction, the Antarctic icecap will melt, adding enough water to the ocean to drown nearly all of the earth's great...