Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice, the FCC rarely uses its licensing power to punish; renewals these days, as California Congressman John Moss recently pointed out, "are nearly as perfunctory as library-card renewals." And two weeks ago, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dealt a heavy setback to two important requirements dictated by the fairness doctrine. One of those requirements provided that any station broadcasting a "personal attack" on someone in an editorial or news documentary must notify that person and offer him time to reply. The other held that any station endorsing or opposing a political candidate must allow the other...
Dissenting Views. Disgusted at the FCC's unwillingness to play a more aggressive role, a few of the seven commissioners have begun voicing their dissenting views. Chief maverick is Nicholas Johnson, 34, a former law professor at the University of California, who argues: "We haven't got any plan, we have no goal, we have no idea of where American communications will be in 20 years." One commissioner, Robert Bartley, openly argues for the FCC's abolition and the division of its functions among three new agencies. "Let's burn down the old house with...
...Young People's Socialist League scored a major success in its picketing of grape sellers in the Harvard Square area yesterday. Superior Market and Nini's Corner both consented late yesterday to sign agreements promising not to buy California grapes until the strike has ended...
Kelman admitted that there had been a "mix-up" in organizing the boycott and that no one had actually checked the Broadway shelves. "Apparently there are no California grapes at the Broadway," said Marcos Munos, Massachusetts co-ordinator of the grape strike...
...Harvard's purchase of California grapes contributes to the impoverishment and oppression of American farm workers," Kelman said, "and allows the growers to deny their employees the basic right of collective bargaining...