Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popped and dignitaries shook hands. Replied Vice President Richard Nixon, who with Wife Pat had arrived in London in a foul fog on a four-day good-will trip to Britain: "We have fog in San Francisco and smog in Los Angeles, so it's a lot like California weather." At once London's Daily Mail reported that Nixon had "managed to make everyone feel that he would have been deeply disappointed if it had been a clear...
Plans are not definite yet, but the trip will be made some time next year, according to Leighton. At the time of the program the Leightons were visiting their son in California, and on their return from Sweden they will pass through California again for another visit...
Fred M. Leventhal '60, president of the Harvard Young Democrats, announced yesterday that organizations from the Universities of Southern California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin have signed a telegram written by the HYDC endorsing Butler...
Even with the institution of presidential preference primaries, governors are just more likely to control their own state's convention votes than any outsider. And so the leading Democratic prospects in 1960 are Meyner of New Jersey, Pat Brown of California, Soapy Williams of Michigan, Faubus of Arkansas, and Happy Chandler of Kentucky. Of course, precedent doesn't mean a thing, and Adlai, even without any favorite-son backing from Illinois, could be the choice of a convention unable to decide among a host of mediocrities. The 1924 convention, deadlocked between Smith and McAdoo, turned to Davis, also a corporation...
...which leaves the convention looking like a Rube Goldberg contraption carried over into politics. Pat Brown, for instance, will find himself up against a strong liberal faction in California, where Paul Ziffren, the national committeeman, will probably try to throw the delegation to the most liberal candidate--a category Pat Brown doesn't exactly fit. Ziffren, having elected Engle to the Senate, will be feeling his oats and is backed up by a large and noisy group of intellectual youngsters. New York, too, may not stay with Wagner very long, if either Meyner or Kennedy start bidding high...