Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
...huge cafeteria of California's Folsom Prison, a baritone lament ech oes over a shuffling country beat...
...Missouri. The most impressive growth has come in book retailing, notably the cluster of B. Dalton bookshops that Dayton's has opened in the Middle West and West in the past two years. This month the company strengthened this division by acquiring the eight-store Pickwick chain, Southern California's leading bookseller...
...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
...series of heart attacks be gan in April when Eisenhower was in California. Two weeks later, he was well enough to be moved to Walter Reed, where he soon suffered three more. In their twice-daily reports, cardiologists tried to distinguish between "mild heart attacks" and "myocardial infarctions." At best, the distinction is difficult to make. Infarction is the process in which part of the myocardium (heart muscle) is killed by being deprived of blood. Even a mild thrombosis and occlusion nearly always causes some infarction, though it may be an extension of an old scar...