Word: californiaisms
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...doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test, a Rorschach inkblot test, a picture-memory test and the Thematic Apperception Test. At any time during his training or six-month probationary period, a recruit's superior may order him to appear before the psychiatric board, which may recommend...
...line to collect for injury were social guests and trespassers, both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went on, was to refrain "from wanton or willful injury." Not any more, said the influential California Supreme Court last month. Reversing a lower court damage-suit decision, it found such categorization of victims obsolete. Henceforth, even a gate crasher who trips over a royal palm stump and fractures his drinking arm will be able to sue with equal protection...
Earlier this year, a California federal court judge, William T. Sweigert, claimed that if Mrs. Hecht's portfolio had been left untouched from 1957 to 1964, its value would have increased from $533,161 to $1,026,775. Instead, her account plunged to $251,308. The judge found that Mrs. Hecht's account had been "grossly and unfairly churned" by more than 10,000 transactions in an effort to generate commissions. Judge Sweigert therefore ordered that the firm pay Mrs. Hecht $504,391 in damages. Harris, Upham is appealing that decision...
...event, Mrs. Hecht paid Harris, Upham a total of $232,000 in commissions and interest on margin loans. Not surprisingly, the California widow was one of Harris, Upham's best customers in that state; in fact, for seven years she accounted for 4.7% of the San Francisco office's revenue...
Since he left the White House in 1964, Pierre Salinger has dabbled in both politics and business. The former press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served five months as interim U.S. Senator from California, then lost an election for a full term. He left the $50,000-a-year vice-presidency of Continental Airlines last January and campaigned for the late Robert F. Kennedy, After Kennedy's assassination, he worked for Senator George McGovern. Now, with McGovern out as a presidential aspirant, Salinger's focus of attention has come back to commerce...