Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey also suffered from some bizarre campaign scheduling. During a two-day swing through California, he spent fully four hours at conservative Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. "If we had gone to U.C.L.A.," explained an aide, "we would have been in for uncontrollable rudeness or total indifference." Thus he was spared the heckling of student militants, but he was also spared exposure to crowds of voters. He expended two valuable hours at Leisure World, a housing complex for the elderly in Seal Beach, where Comedian Jimmy Durante introduced him as "Hoi-but Humphrey." The residents were undoubtedly pleased when...
...after Robert Kennedy's assassination; many of his backers had contributed out of their fear of R.F.K.'s attitudes toward businessmen. Only recently have the funds begun to flow again, mostly from New York. While Nixon has jammed prime-time with television announcements, Humphrey plaintively told California students last week: "I haven't been able to afford a TV ad since last Aug. 20, so help...
...trailing Nixon. In state after state, the Humphrey machine is in disrepair, or nonexistent. In Texas, Humphrey does not even have a campaign manager. The New York situation is so chaotic that Humphrey operatives are bypassing the state organization to set up an independent-citizens' committee. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh is serving as honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort is sponsored by the strongly antiwar California Democratic Council, the nation's largest grass-roots political organization, and Unruh needs...
...Mervin Field poll released last week showed that California voters believe that Muskie does more for the Democratic ticket than Spiro Agnew does for the Republican. All told, 11% of the state's Republicans think that Agnew weakens their ticket, while 17% consider him an asset. Only 6% of the Democrats think Muskie hurts the ticket, while 25% consider him an asset...
YPSL has now obtained written agreements to not sell California grapes from all Harvard Square stores except the Brattle Street Florist...