Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th Congress is concerned, time's a-wastin'. With elections only a month off, its members are desperate to get their campaigns under way. Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week. One of them explained simply: "We've got to get home...
...shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions. Last week, however, the California Court of Appeals reversed that ruling, granting Cleaver 60 days at liberty for appeals...
...Cleaver, a jail-educated militant of abrasive eloquence, the court order for his imprisonment comes at an embarrassing moment. He is the presidential candidate for the antiwar Peace and Freedom Party. He is also scheduled to appear as a guest lecturer at the University of California's Berkeley campus, an appointment that stirred angry protests from the state's political establishment. For the Panthers, with two of their leaders on ice, it was a time of barely throttled fury...
...that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe, a matron laments about the Detroit area: "This place is becoming a jungle." She is considering moving to California. In suburban Los Angeles, Morris Boswell, 52, a bulldozer operator, says that Wallace will be elected. Then, he says, "the punks, the queers, the demonstrators and the hippies-we're going to put them on a barge and ship 'em off to China. Or better yet, sink...
...journalists. In fact, police work also attracts large numbers of men who sincerely want to serve the public, delight in chores as disparate as solving murders and delivering babies, and have all the moral courage requisite to making that awesome police decision-to kill or not to kill.* In California, one study showed that 50% of one police force (Sausalito) had the same psychological profile as doctors and ministers. If most cops were not highly motivated, how could they stand the thankless job of doing society's dirty work...