Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years as a U.S. Senator from California, Thomas Kuchel has never felt constrained to spend much time back home. This month, however, he is stumping his state with what for the easygoing Kuchel amounts to near frenzy. Max Rafferty, the fiercest tongue in the West, has Kuchel in the fight of his political life...
...aides, California is "Rafferty-land," and a telecommunications complex called R.A.M. (for "Rafferty Automatic Motion") links his busy, computerized Los Angeles headquarters to Raffertyland's eleven provinces - which are sprouting 70 field offices...
...Beginning. Webb's early success is all the more striking because he was so recently at rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing...
Simon himself plans to devote more time to his interests in art and education (he is a member of the University of California's Board of Regents and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education). But he will certainly have a say in Norton Simon Inc. When the new company's stock, which will be swapped for Hunt, McCall and Canada Dry shares, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the man commanding the biggest block of Norton Simon Inc. shares will be Norton Si mon himself. At a likely price of around $40 a share, the collection...
...bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...