Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report came out of an investigation directed by John Schulz, an assistant law professor at the University of Southern California. The investigation was organized last spring by Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed, and lasted over the summer...
...false alarm. After an interminable five minutes when the planes were taxiing back to the crowd, the doors opened but the crewmen didn't get out. From one door stepped Senator Margaret Chase Smith, wearing a red dress and walking on crutches; out of the other plane came California's Governor Ronald Reagan and his family. A brief titter over Reagan subsided, and the crowd went back to its waiting. As the band broke into "76 Trombones," a voice came over the loudspeakers: "the planes bearing the men of the Pueblo are 40 miles away...
More than anything else, it is this sense of frustration which characterizes the Harvard basketball team today. The swing through California started dismally, crushing much hope. It ended painfully as Gus and two teammates missed last second shots which would have tied San Francisco. The Harrison-miracle is still in an anticipatory stage...
...record, after a pre-trip upset of Rutgers, Harvard lost its first round game in the California Winter Classic to host University of California at Santa Barbara, 88-62. The next night, three men scored 20 points or more as the Crimson bounced back to take third place, beating Loyola of New Orleans, 95-84. Later in the week, Harvard lost to a physically rugged San Jose State squad, 91-75 and San Francisco...
Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...