Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prime Time. In California, where he is thinking of second-ballot votes, he missed hardly a stop, skipping from San Francisco's Commonwealth Club to the Town Hall Forum and a private meeting with influential G.O.P. supporters in Los Angeles. "There are some hard-core Nixon people," said Tire Heir Leonard Firestone after the meeting, "but there are lots of open-minded people." At week's end Rocky was at the Republican Governors' Conference in Tulsa, Okla., where he finally won the endorsement of Shafer, who will bring him 40 to 50 of Pennsylvania...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...
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Eugene has his Mary, Hubert his Nancy, Dick has Tricia and Julie-yet those campaigning daughters are raw rookies compared with the girl stumping for California's Governor. Maureen Reagan, 27, Ronnie's daughter by his first marriage to Jane Wyman, has been on the hustings for nearly a decade and raps out a line conservative enough to leave her dad in left field. Maureen has toured for the ultra-rightist Constitutional Alliance, recorded folk songs (sample lyrics: "If you fight and your belief is right You'll never let freedom die"), and visited more than...