Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDGAR ALLAN by John Neufeld (S. G. Phillips, $3.95) a white family in a California town adopts a black child, then returns him to the adoption agency because the white father-a minister-finds he cannot stand the pressure and hatred that his act of charity has caused...
...most important choices was still unofficial at the end of last week, but Nixon left little doubt that he would appoint California Lieut. Governor Robert Finch as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch, 43, one of Nixon's oldest friends and political associates, will be no ordinary Cabinet member. He will oversee Nix on's entire domestic program. Finch may also eventually head a new agency. Nixon has tentative plans to ask Congress to combine HEW with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, forming a new Department of Human Resources. The purpose of the merger would...
...following are excerpts from a paper delivered by Dr. Bandura. Much has been omitted. People professionally interested in his research should contact Dr. Bandura in California or the CRIMSON for references to the full published write-ups of the experiments...
...very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce that Humphrey had carried California and was now NBC's projected winner...
...police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences, the ultimate length to be decided by skilled penologists according to each prisoner's response to treatment...