Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentence for narcotics possession, yet last month he not only touched his two kids but romped with them on a broad green lawn. For three days and two nights, he was father and husband again, living with his family in a pleasant duplex ranch house on the grounds of California's State Correctional Institute at Tehachapi...
...Some prisons in Europe and Latin America have long allowed their inmates to receive brief "conjugal visits" from wives and girl friends for the purpose of sexual release. In Mississippi, the state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded by elm trees and shrubs...
Above the Struggle. The basic concern is to preserve the high court's impartiality. "So long as a Justice, or a President for that matter, is especially careful not to get involved with questions that might become judicial questions," says Law Professor Jesse Choper of the University of California at Berkeley, "then I don't think there's anything improper about this at all." Harvard Law School's Arthur Sutherland agrees: "If it's something that might come before a judge, then it's his obligation to keep his mouth shut...
There is virtually nothing that is absolutely guaranteed not to come before the court. Fortas, for instance, has frequently discussed Viet Nam with the President and is a known backer of Administration policy. Given those circumstances, Professor William Bishin of the University of Southern California argues that "Fortas couldn't possibly give unbiased consideration to the rights of anti-Viet Nam war demonstrators. If the question of the constitutionality of the war should come before the court, Fortas would not be able to rule upon it from an impartial position." Making the same point another way, U.C.L.A. Politics Professor...
...Standard Oil Co. (California) showed record second-quarter earnings of $116.8 million ($1.44 per share), up from 1967's $107.8 million ($1.33 per share). Chairman O. N. Miller attributed the 8% gain to a 15% jump from 1967's pace of 1,807,500 bbl. daily, plus a "continued strong upward trend" in chemical-sales revenues...