Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout, Earl Warren was both symbol and target. Bumper stickers reading IMPEACH EARL WARREN-or in California, FLUORIDATE EARL WARREN -festooned countless autos, and the Chief Justice was long No. 1 on the far right's hate list. In 1954, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland denounced Warren's court as "the greatest single threat to our Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice...
...California (174): One each for Humphrey and McCarthy. Robert Kennedy's friends are keeping the other 172 votes uncommitted...
...fact is that many designers and their clients are getting a bit bored with the bikini. Ann Cole, of Cole of California, notes that bikinis used to account for some 45% of bathing-suit sales, but now have only about 20% of the market. "The bikini will never vanish entirely," she predicts, "but it can't be bikini year in and year out." Tom Brigance, who has created more bathing suits over the years than anyone else in the business, complains: "There is very little a designer can do with a bikini. It's like plucking an eyebrow...
...when George Schuster was working for the E. R. Thomas Motor Co. of Buffalo, his boss sent him on a trip to Paris. There was one catch. George had to go by car, via California and Siberia, as a contestant in the longest auto race ever...
Died. Wes Montgomery, 43, self-taught guitarist, whose knack for turning jazz to pop and vice versa produced such hit albums as A Day in the Life and California Dreaming; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Long acclaimed as one of the country's best jazz guitarists, he got into the groove with Goin' Out of My Head, his first pop LP and a 1966 Grammy winner...