Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California Los Angeles...
...near Cedar Rapids). The persuasion of Dr. McKeeby, who died some years ago, entailed the efforts of a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter named Dorothy Dougherty, who is now a Cleveland housewife; a photographer named John Reynolds, who is now an assistant to the president of the University of Southern California; and myself...
...been an active contender. No doubt. But Humphrey is directly involved in none of the forthcoming primaries, and the "unauthorized" Nebraska write-in campaign on his behalf clearly bombed. Humphrey visited Nebraska four days before the primary, seemingly inviting votes. Now he plans to stay out of Oregon, California and South Dakota until those primaries are over. McCarthy, who is on the ballot against Kennedy in the three remaining contests, vows to fight it out, spurning the New Yorker's offer to join forces...
...Enmity. As Kennedy strategists view the race, McCarthy is finished as a serious candidate, although he might still give them competition in Oregon next week and California the week after. Kennedy studiously avoids taking any pokes at McCarthy in the hope that eventually he will inherit some of the delegate strength remaining...
...Last Push. Oregon and California will present new problems to Kennedy. Oregon is underdog territory, and McCarthy's campaign there is better organized than it was in either Nebraska or Indiana. Although the Minnesotan himself appears discouraged, his troops on the West Coast seem to be of a mood to give one last push for Gene. Kennedy enjoys support from the regular Democratic organization in Oregon, but that is puny by any reckoning in that anti-organization state. And some Oregonians remember that Bobby, as a Senate investigator in 1957, was instrumental in getting Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk tried...