Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharpest percentage rise in state spending this year is taking place in well-heeled small-population states (Iowa up 19%, Indiana up 16%, Nevada up 15%). But the sharpest pangs will be felt in such big-population states as New York, California, Michigan and Illinois...
President Horn of the University of Rhode Island said yesterday that it was "absurd for the government to look only at the requests, and disregard the actual needs." He pointed out that Humphreys College in Stockton, California, with a student body of only 400, received a grant...
...California's thrice-married, twice-divorced Melvin Belli (rhymes with dwell I), 51, knows exactly what he is talking about. He is the recognized if not the revered leader in the most phenomenal field of U.S. law: personal injury. In the last ten years, average jury awards in personal-injury suits have soared by a spectacular 266%. His worst enemies admit, indeed insist, that flamboyant Melvin Belli, who has won more than 100 cases in the past decade with awards exceeding $100,000. is the lawyer most responsible...
...Tear. Next only to insurancemen, Melvin Belli (University of California Law School '33) dislikes doctors most. He maintains that in malpractice suits the medical profession is a "conspiracy of silence"; few physicians, he declares, will risk testifying against a fellow doctor, for fear either of reprisal by medical associations or of loss of their own malpractice insurance. He got a measure of revenge in a 1949 case in which he appeared for an aging woman who charged that a specialist had promised to give her "the breasts of a virgin." The doctor, complained the plaintiff, had mutilated her instead...
...Publisher W. J. Valentine of California's Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette (circ. 6,612) the news was significant, and he printed it. AIR FORCE FORECASTS ACTIVITY DECLINE AT PALMDALE AIRPORT, read the Page One banner headline. The story below quoted Air Force officials who said employment at the facility on the edge of the Mojave desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, would be reduced from 3,542 to 1,972 by late...