Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORT (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Women's Alpine Skiing Championship from Oberstauf-en, Germany, and the Thousand-Mile Cross-Country Auto Race down the rugged Baja California peninsula from Ensenada...
...Deputy Secretary of Defense, No. 2 man in the Government's biggest department ($80 billion a year, a military and civilian personnel of 4,500,000), he picked one of the nation's most unusual and successful businessmen: Centimillionaire David Packard, 56, board chairman of California's prosperous Hewlett-Packard...
...political columnists. After one campaign appearance in Miami, he relaxed by tossing a football around on the airport apron at 3 a.m. Last week-even though he was vacationing in Key Biscayne, just a few miles from the Orange Bowl-Nixon picked up stakes for a trip back to California and the Rose Bowl. He calls it "the prize game of all bowl games...
Desire to Compete.The finale in California was a "Welcome Home, Pat and Dick" party in half a dozen towns in the area where Nixon grew up. It was staged-inevitably-as a "This Is Your Life" show. The 9,000 rooters who packed Anaheim's convention center were treated to recollections of Nixon's youth by everyone from Speech Teacher H. Lynn Sheller, who told of the future President's "tremendous desire to succeed and to compete," to 92-year-old Ella Furnas, who was introduced as the first person to hold Nixon when he was born...
...served aboard the battleship Kentucky in World War I, later finished his schooling while holding down part-time jobs, one as an oil-field roustabout and another as a hat-check boy in a dance hall. After earning undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Southern California, he worked first for the state, mainly investigating the licensing of stock brokers, and later for the Los Angeles County district attorney. He practiced law on his own for seven years. Then, in 1953, Governor Earl Warren appointed him to the bench...