Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, student sit-ins were being held elsewhere at Cheyney State College, near Philadelphia, and Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California...
...with whom they agree-and fall into an echo chamber. Latin American students have considerable control over many universities, and the consequence is chaos and inferior education. A university is not a democracy and cannot become one without degenerating into anarchy. At a conference on "Students and Society" at California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions last year, the president of the student body of St. Louis' Washington University put it aptly: "Were Washington University to be turned over to the students and faculty, it would fold in about six months because nobody would know...
...Pauling, 67, now on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his monumental work on the chemical bonding of atoms into molecules. Lately, he has won more attention (and a second Nobel Prize) as an antiwar crusader. But Pauling remains a chemist at heart, and has long been fascinated by that most elusive of chemical puzzles, the workings of the brain...
Inflated Appraisals. The original Bellehurst fell victim to sales trouble, financial high jinks and a complex legal battle. Southern California Developer Cliff S. Jones paid $4,530,000 in 1956 for a hog farm on the border of Los Angeles and Orange Counties and laid grand plans for wrapping his 906-acre community around a 27-hole golf course. Los Coyotes Country Club was quickly completed, but a five-month plasterers' strike left Jones with house after unfinished house he could not sell. After the strike was settled, Jones was unable to resume construction. The Federal Home Loan Bank...
Spreading Out. After 19 years of building almost entirely in Southern California (20,000 homes, 5,000 apartments, 52 mobile home parks), Watt has expanded swiftly since joining Boise Cascade in 1966. President Ray A. Watt, 48, a former Douglas Aircraft plant official, has doubled his executive team to a total of 16 men, started several new projects in Northern California, and spread out to Seattle. Next year, he expects to begin building more homes in Chicago and Washington. Watt thus joins the small but growing group of big-volume builders whose ties with capital-rich corporations are enabling them...