Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ineffectual White House. Draft-Kennedy movements are springing up everywhere, some of them led by former Carter supporters, and Kennedy's own elated staff members are beginning to jockey for positions in the would-be, might-be, soon-to-be campaign. Says an enthusiastic aide to California Senator Alan Cran- ston, the Senate whip and a top member of the Democratic establishment: "Everybody in California is just sitting and waiting for Kennedy. He has the Machinists Union, the United Auto Workers and the Beverly Hills crowd. What else is there...
...other veteran Carter campaigners also set forth to support the President: Rosalynn and Miss Lillian. Both made forays into New Hampshire with indifferent results. Miss Lillian attended a Democratic picnic at Pulaski Park in Nashua, but she was overshadowed by stirrings of Kennedy support and by California Governor Jerry Brown, who was spending a day campaigning in the Granite State. Brown had originally intended to stay four days, but had to rush back home to keep his rambunctious Republican Lieutenant Governor, Mike Curb, from making any more trouble in the statehouse. (Brown has filed suit to restrain Curb from contravening...
...California parties...
...snorted cocaine at New York City's Studio 54 in 1978. The charges were made by Disco Owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who are under indictment for income tax evasion. Last week one of their associates sent investigators off in a new direction, across the country to California. This time the allegation is that Jordan attended two parties in Beverly Hills in October 1977 at which cocaine was used...
...Didion's latest collection of these images--20 essays written from 1968 to 1978. It is a brilliant albeit occasionally disjointed collage of impressions, written with her customary journalistic eye for detail and infused with emotion. The essays discuss the '60's, portray Didion and others, and sketch California life with and deadly accuracy...