Word: californiaisms
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Community Service. Quite a few of the new Cabinet members are no strangers to Washington. Stans served as Eisenhower's budget director from 1958 to 1960. Finch was executive secretary to California Congressman Norris Poulson in the late 1940s, and administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon a decade later. Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, has been an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, and has become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house...
...Even as Hickel struggled for confirmation last week, outgoing Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall made a final bequest to conservationists. He set aside land in California, Alaska, Utah and Arizona for national parks and monuments...
...case, and undertook his own time-consuming investigation. Largely because of his concern, three men were saved from the gas chamber. In New York City, 250 youthful executives are giving up much of their leisure time to help black and Puerto Rican entrepreneurs open businesses in the slums. In California, James Lorenz, a bright young lawyer, has forsworn a more profitable law practice in order to establish a statewide legal-aid service for Mexican-American farm workers...
Exposing Skepticism. Cooper asked other panel members whether they had heard of a legal argument called "diminished responsibility," which will obviously be the crux of Sirhan's defense. The argument is an old one. But California is one of only a dozen or so states that permit a lawyer to try to prove diminished responsibility by presenting psychiatric evidence. Cooper's claim would not be that Sirhan was insane at the time of the shooting. Rather, as Cooper indicated, the defense would try to prove that because of mental or emotional illness, Sirhan lacked the malice or "specific...
...users know whether or not they are getting real THC? "If it doesn't cost at least $15 a capsule, I stay away from it," says a worldly California coed, applying the American-consumer standard that if it costs enough, it must be all right. Whatever the users' criteria or confidence, they are most likely to get such substitutes as the animal tranquilizers, which are known to West Coast aficionados as "hog" and to East Coast fanciers as the "peace pill...