Word: californiaisms
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...Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger...
Packwood, a three-term Oregon state representative, is characteristic of an ambitious type of Republican emerging at the grass roots. This month the G.O.P. in five states-California, New York, Delaware, Indiana and Iowa-gained control of both houses of legislatures that were formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...
FRED N., 35, is a regional-sales representative in California. He was educated at Roman Catholic schools from first grade through college. He and his wife Cathy, 31, are regular worshipers at their parish church; their three daughters attend its parochial school; one young son is still at home. Convinced that they cannot afford to have more children, Fred and Cathy for the past few years have practiced birth control. Otherwise, they are loyal Catholics-and typical in their disaffection from what they feel are the church's outdated ways, in their hopes for further renewal...
Mervin Dymally, California State Representative of the Watts ghetto, last night criticized the Black Power movement for not participating in the electoral process...
Dymally called for a coalition of Blacks, Mexican-Americans, and students to press for legislation aiding Blacks and other minorities. He said that Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the House in the California Assembly, shifted to the left when he recognized the success of this coalition in that state...