Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Personal Views of a 23-Year-Old Student, or John LeBoutillier's America, or even the subtitle: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American--a private printing might have run off 20 copies: 10 for the author's parents and 10 for aunts and uncles in Orange County, California, or some other reactionary region. As it is, the book is prominently displayed in reputable bookstores and reviewed in reputable publications. That means others--including other reviewers--are forced to take account of drivel they could otherwise throw in the circular file with the rest of the crank mail...
...decades the Los Angeles Times was little more than the instrument with which the Chandler family, its sole owners since 1886, scooped out a financial and social empire in Southern California. Real estate deals dictated editorial policy, and news columns seldom threatened the good names and growing fortunes of local business interests. Humorist S.J. Perelman once wrote of a cross-country train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times...
Despite early caution about the DC-10 (McDonnell Douglas has old Chandler connections), the Times was the first news organization to send a reporter to Oklahoma City to check on previous malfunctions of the plane that caused America's worst air disaster. The California Supreme Court is still in turmoil as a result of last November's Times story reporting that the court withheld politically sensitive decisions until after the election. And the Times put three months and about $2 million into a 32-page special section on oil-rich Mexico published July...
Such misses undermine one of Chandler's goals: to make the rest of the country take California, and the Times, seriously. The Eastern press ignored a frontpage Times story on June 29 revealing that former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had been reprimanded by Vice President Mondale at the request of Carter. A month later Califano's departure came as too much of a surprise to much of Washington. "Had the story got East Coast play," says Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson, "it would undoubtedly have had more impact." Chandler's growing presence in the Greater...
Sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston (where shivering indoor frigidity became a mark of status) could never have mushroomed so prosperously without air conditioning; some communities-Las Vegas in the Nevada desert and Lake Havasu City on the Arizona-California border-would shrivel and die overnight if it were turned...