Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president at Ford. Miller at 51 was shunted sideways into the newly created spot of vice chairman-after 22 years with the company, which he joined with Robert McNamara as one of the famed "whiz kids." A scholarly executive who once taught economics at the University of California and rose through finance to the top, Miller could never boast, like many of his fellow automen, that he had gasoline in his veins. "I have been an automobile man interested in education," he says. "Now I'll be an educator interested in the automobile industry...
...network of locally issued but interchangeable charge cards that went into operation nine months ago, now includes 450 participating banks in as many as 21 states. About 40% of Interbank's 8,000,000 members hold so-called Master Charge cards, jointly issued by banks in California, Nevada, Utah and Washington; the rest hold a variety of cards issued by other banks. Next year three leading New York City banks— Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chemical Bank New York Trust and Marine Midland Grace Trust -will introduce Master Charge cards in an effort to compete with First National City Bank...
...trends. Striking the keynote in the Fridericianum are the signal-flag squares of German-born Josef Albers, who lives and works in the U.S. They are accompanied by the shaped, geometric and op canvases of his many European and American admirers. A room is lit with the disks of California's Robert Irwin (TiME, May 10). Highceilinged, cathedral-like galleries are filled with the gigantic rainbows of U.S. color-field painters and the authoritative sculpture of the U.S. minimalists...
Close to 90% of drug addicts at federal hospitals suffer relapses once they are released. At Synanon, a privately run California halfway house for narcotics users, a combination of selfhelp, trust and group therapy has lowered the figure to as little as 20%. So successful is Synanon that five affiliates have sprung up across the U.S. Nonetheless, California Narcotic Authority agents raided Synanon's beach-front building in Santa Monica last month and removed Alyce Mae Walker, 27, and Richie Marks, 34, two of the 700 voluntary inmates...
Both Marks and Walker were on parole from California's Narcotic Rehabilitation Center at Corona. From Synanon, they were driven to a nearby state narcotics center and ordered to take tests that would determine whether they were "clean." Under California law, narcotics parolees are subject to periodic surprise testing. On the advice of Synanon's lawyers, Walker and Marks refused to take the test; their paroles were revoked, and they were sent back to Corona to serve out their full terms...