Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...
...odds-on favorite for the Republican presidental nomination, he had to give serious consideration to the choice of a running mate. He also set out to polish position papers for the G.O.P. Platform Committee, and write an acceptance speech. For his retreat, he borrowed a white bungalow at California's Newport Beach that resounded all week to pounding waves from the West...
...Congressmen. Equally expectable types include the pretty, enthusiastic Republican matron from Virginia who has given four to eight hours a day, five days a week, to her local party headquarters to earn her vote in Miami; or the Negro athlete whose name adds luster and racial balance to the California Democratic delegation...
Party bosses come to conventions in all shapes and sizes. Consider the contrast between Victor Smith, Illinois Republican state chairman, and Jesse Unruh, Democratic speaker of the California assembly...
...Revelle, who was vacationing in California when he was contacted for comment, found the encylical letter an immediate stumbling block to the efforts of those men who are attempting to disseminate birth control information in predominately poor Catholic countries, the countries of South America, the nations of Central America, and the Phillipines. It will make the efforts of these men "very much harder," said Revelle and therefore in these non-industrialized countries where the poor would be less burdened by a smaller family, the Pope's pronouncement does not serve the needs of humanity. This encylical will especially hurt...