Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* "I Want to Live!, Susan Hayward's Academy Award-winning performance as a girl who, they said, murdered in hot blood. Death-cell drama based on a factual California murder case...
...WEST: No Contest Of the region's 95 electoral votes, Humphrey is likely to win a scant seven -from the two newest states in the Union, Alaska (3) and Hawaii (4)- while Nixon walks off with the remaining 88 votes from eleven states. For Nixon: Arizona (5), California (40), Colorado (6), Idaho (4), Montana (4), Nevada (3), New Mexico (4), Oregon (6), Washington (9), Wyoming (3) and Utah...
...California is the big one and is as unpredictable as ever. Nonetheless, the anti-incumbent tide that is beginning to run elsewhere in the nation might hurt Humphrey, unless he can somehow shuck his identification with the Administration. In Arizona, Goldwater's presence on the ticket as a senatorial candidate should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely...
...snow job in the ice palace"). Among her favorite directors are John Frankenheimer and Orson Welles, who provide "clean, fast pacing without the fancy stuff. It goes better with our national rhythm." A onetime experimental moviemaker in San Francisco, where she grew up and attended the University of California at Berkeley, she finds today's underground film makers too proud of their careless technique. "The movie brutalists, it's all too apparent, are hurting our eyes to save our souls...
...Many people say that "Juneteenth" (June 19) should be made a legal holiday because this was the day when a) The slaves were freed in the U.S., b) The slaves were freed in Texas, c) The slaves were freed in Jamaica, d) The slaves were freed in California, e) Martin Luther King was born, f) Booker T. Washington died. Answers...