Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with McCarthy supporters and other Democratic dissidents to plot a stop-Humphrey campaign. To some, it is Rocky who now personifies Bobby's qualities of style and passion for the poor (if not his youth). Mrs. Joan Braden, a Kennedy family friend who was co-chairman of the California People for Kennedy, crossed over to the G.O.P. to become chairman of a national People for Rockefeller group...
...Standard Oil Co. of California 44. Day & Zimmermann...
Instinctively Wary. Ahmanson's growth was as phenomenal as that of Southern California itself. The Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, Ahmanson had built a $20,000 stake in the stock market by age 18, moved west to sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from...
...runoff for one berth in this week's Olympic trials-no fewer than ten competitors equaled Hary's time, and three were officially clocked at 9.9 sec. The record-breakers: Seattle's Charlie Greene, 23, Texan Jim Hines, 21, and Ronnie Ray Smith, a sophomore at California's San Jose State College. Disallowed because of a following 6.2-m.p.h. breeze (legal maximum: 4.473 m.p.h.) was a clocking of 9.8 sec. for Hines-who wound up losing to Greene in the final in the suddenly mediocre time of ten-flat...
...vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine in a movie, to build her a home "at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow...