Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searching for more expansive superlatives ever since. He has watched other space shots, and as each one traveled farther or stayed in orbit longer, Neff was more and more impressed by the skill and dedication of the engineers and scientists whose work he reported. He was on hand at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory when word was passed that Mariner 4 had made a successful flight past Mars, and the electric tension in the great computer-packed control room was something Neff was sure he would never see equaled...
...California's Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch was a good bet to become overseer of Nixon's entire domestic program, possibly as Secretary of HEW or HUD. Campaign Manager John Mitchell is a fair guess to become Attorney General. The Nixon camp leaked the word that G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, 60, will probably be sacked. Nixon believes that the Republicans need a more activist, youthful image, but the move will cause bitter feelings among party regulars...
There was some puzzlement, because Klein, a Nixon friend and adviser from the earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
...whose notable talent is neither writing nor editing but getting along with people. Incongruously, for a chief operative in a notoriously efficient political organization, Klein has always been a "dirty-desk" man who seems almost constitutionally unable to arrive for an appointment on time. As a political reporter for California's Alhambra Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide...
From "I'm Evil," all of a sudden Elvis is in the middle of this tiny stage, surrounded by an audience of girls. Real live human being girls, with whitened hair and Montgomery Ward dresses and the belligerently Okie appearance that is associated with California dragstrips and jerkwater high schools. He's holding his own ax--"I didn't know Elvis could play the guitar...