Word: californiaisms
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...learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration, whom Nixon selected to become the 55th Secretary of State and Keeper...
Unless such steps are taken to provide greater equality of opportunity for higher education, the commission argues, an important reservoir of national talent will go untapped. Today, said Chairman Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, "a young man or woman whose family's income is in the top half of the national income range has three times the chance to get a college education as one whose family is in the bottom half." The commission's figures show that while 19 out of 20 of the brightest students in the top 25% income group...
Merton had long been fascinated by Zen, and he argued that Buddhism was a philosophic discipline that could well be employed by Christians. "Buddhism is not word," a he told religion in friends our at sense of the California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions on his way to Asia in October. "It's a totally different approach to reality, a psychological thing. I be lieve it's quite possible for a Catholic to enter into the esoteric traditions of Tibetan Buddhism." He departed for Asia, said W. H. Ferry of the Center, "absolutely bouncing...
...California Trip...
After the Rutgers game, Harvard will begin to get ready for its Christmas tournament, a two-night stand at the University of California at Santa Barbara, December 27 and 28. Depending on the draw. Harvard will play one night against Santa Barbara or Texas Christian University--the defending Southwest Conference champion -- or Fordham -- which has lost only to Columbia, by nine points...