Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rafferty himself did not seem worried. He came from behind in both his 1962 campaign and this year's primary race against Kuchel. Besides, he has little use for polls. "The pollsters in California are flagrant liars," he storms. "Their polls are phony, stupid and rigged." They are nothing of the sort, but Rafferty may not be entirely unjustified in ignoring their September samplings. In California, the nation's most populous state and growing more so at the rate of 1,200 people a day, it is a commonplace that everything can change in 24 hours...
...special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California's Kern County, the scene of a bitter strike against growers of table grapes organized by Cesar Chavez, leader of the farm workers. Other strikebreakers, the union alleges, have been recruited illegally from among "green-card" workers-aliens who hold U.S. residence permits but commute from Mexico. The going price...
Though the college football season is barely under way, the experts are already excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...charged with the job pushing Prescott's students to their physical limits is Roy Smith, 28, a robust English-born mountaineer, who has led students on skindiving trips to the Gulf of California, and on explorations of caves in the Grand Canyon, and organized a student mountain-rescue team. This spring he plans a kayak trip down the Colorado River and eventually hopes to lead an archaeological expedition to Peru and an 1,800-mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge...
...first Mailer was dismayed at McCarthy's failure to attack Humphrey in debate before the California delegation. Then he came to realize that the Senator was "proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint...