Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first lesson in Southern life came two weeks into the summer, in Selma. I had come to Selma to see Ted Dibble, a friend of mine from California who was spending the summer working for a welfare rights project in the Black Belt. On my way through Selma, I stopped at the Silver Moon Cafe to get some coffee...
...dome light flashing behind him did not belong to some friendly police car escorting him to a movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell...
During the summer, 800 incoming freshmen at the Riverside campus of the University of California answered eight pages of such personal questions as these. The school's purpose in making this impertinent inquiry was to combat a major cause of student restiveness: mismatched dormitory roommates. Answers to the questionnaire, which focused on personal interests, housekeeping habits and study patterns, were run through a computer. Out came paired assignments to rooms. When the computerized friends got acquainted last week, most of them agreed that the innovation was definitely preferable to the old system of pairing roommates by administrative fiat...
Americans traditionally are strong in the dashes. This year California's Jim Hines and Washington's Charlie Greene are co-holders of the world record (9.9 sec.) for 100 meters, and New York's John Carlos tuned up for the Olympic 200 meters last month by clipping .3 sec. off the old world mark...
More Strains. Macy's new top executives are more in the organization-man mold than Mr. Jack. Like Straus, President Molloy joined Macy's training squad right after Harvard ('29), later became boss of Macy's fast-growing California division. Macy's new chairman, Donald Smiley, has the salesman's open manner, yet is first to admit that he is "a nonmerchant." Macy's general attorney and then treasurer before he became vice chairman, Smiley will pursue the company's already sizable expansion program, which has added 13 new stores...