Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S article regarding the National Educational Television program on the plight of migrant farm workers [Feb. 16] contains a serious error. Huelga! is not a film about Mexicans working in California. It is a film that depicts a struggle to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. They are among the more than 6,000,000 Mexican American citizens who pay taxes, fight and die in Viet Nam and send their children to U.S. schools...
...deliberately restricting himself to broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
Still, a Gallup poll last week showed Nixon the choice of 51% of G.O.P. voters, followed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (25%) and California's Governor Ronald Reagan (8%). Romney was in fourth place with 7%. Another Gallup rated Nixon even, 42 to 42, with President Johnson among all the nation's voters...
They don't hardly talk that way any more. But Dr. Max Rafferty, California's superintendent of public instruction, does, and he loves his purple style. So do a lot of voters. An author of alarmist books on the U.S. educational system, he is also his state's alltime champion vote getter. At the Palladium last week he declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow Republican Thomas Kuchel, and as the darling of California's hard-lining conservatives, Rafferty just might give Tom Kuchel a tough fight for the nomination. Kuchel...
Wheeler's statement immediately touched off a spate of "inside" reports, purporting to prove that nuclear warfare was imminent at Khesanh. Claiming that nuclear weapons were already being stored in Thailand, a University of California professor said last week that "for the first time since World War II, the United States is planning to use nuclear weapons in combat...