Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, it was an optimistic Harvard eleven led by Coach Bob Fisher that arrived in California on Christmas Day--early enough to get in at least a week of practice before the game...
McCarthy's cause was boosted a bit in Minnesota and California as well. In his home state, McCarthy surprisingly was assured of 16 of Minnesota's 62 Democratic delegates during party precinct caucuses. In California, McCarthy partisans held midnight-to-dawn petition parties to sign on voters to validate his position on the state's June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California...
...face from the past popped briefly into view as Carole Tregoff, 30, sentenced to life imprisonment seven years ago for the murder of her lover's wife, Barbara Jean Finch, was denied parole in California in her first hearing after becoming eligible. Dr. R. Bernard Finch, also serving a life term, gets his first hearing next month, and it is thought likely that he will get the same answer. Next time might be different. Carole can try again in 14 months, said the parole board chairman, and she will "in all likelihood" be released...
...seats with bad sight lines for hockey and track, water leaking from the ceiling, a nonfunctioning electric Scoreboard and clock. Even so, its problems were nothing compared with those at the new Philadelphia Spectrum, where the roof blew off, or the Inglewood Forum, which boasts southern California's most awesome traffic jam in its parking lot. By fight night, most of the Garden's problems had been solved: sight lines were being cleared, the Scoreboard clock was working-and boxing, at least, had a brilliant new showcase...
What happens when you take one of Berkeley's liberal-minded philosophy professors and give him complete freedom to fashion an experimental liberal-arts program that lets students talk endlessly with talented teachers? Quite naturally, some of California's most pro test-prone, far-out students will sign up. In 1965, when Joseph Tussman started his Experimental College Program, the far-outers soon discovered that Tuss man, former head of Berkeley's philosophy department, had some seemingly square notions-such as that learning involves hard work and that one aim of education is good citizenship. But those...