Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MONTGOMERY: A DAY IN THE LIFE (A & M). Long a top jazz guitarist, Montgomery acquired new status and a wider audience with his first jazz-pop success, California Dreaming. Once more, with arrangements by . Don Sebesky, Wes has toned down his improvisations and tuned up a fleet of strings to accompany his standard rhythm section of piano, bass and drums. The result is a polished, gently swinging kind of music with a particularly polite but still identifiable Montgomery guitar...
...successful challenge to an incumbent President in 84 years may be growing shorter. This week's Gallup poll shows Kennedy pulling ahead of Johnson in popularity among Democrats 44% to 41%, after having trailed him 44% to 45% the week before announcing his candidacy. Mervin Field's California poll showed that in a three-way race in the June 4 primary there, Kennedy would draw 42% of the vote, Johnson 32% and McCarthy 18%; in a two-way race, the survey shows Bobby shellacking the President...
There is no question that probation can be more effective than prison. In one experiment by the California Youth Authority, convicted juvenile delinquents were immediately returned to their homes or foster homes, where parole officers grouped them according to their special characteristics and then provided intensive treatment - tutoring, psychotherapy, occasional confinement. After five years, only 28% of the experimental group had their paroles revoked, compared with 52% of a similar group that was locked up after conviction. By giving 600 more delinquents such treatment, California avoided paying $7,000,000 for a new reformatory. Supervising adult felons on probation costs...
...opinions for higher-court review. American law should probably hand the job to penal experts. Federal judges already may send convicted persons to classification centers before sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most of the world in systematic penology, judges give indeterminate sentences, and correction officials then determine the offender's fate according to his well-tested possibilities. In 1966, only 7% of California felons went to prison. Of all state inmates, 20% actually work outside...
Kennedy will campaign vigorously in New York in the two weeks between the California primary and the New York vote. But there are too many miles of terrain in New York and too many millions of voters for even Kennedy to do in this state what McCarthy did in New Hampshire. The question is whether Kennedy can do what it is fashionable to claim McCarthy cannot do--win the delegates in the back rooms...