Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last July, seventy-seven trainees arrived on the plastic campus of sunny California's University of Riverside to learn how to dig irrigation canals. Three months later the surviving forty-four shipped out to a picturesque bressaro camp in tiny town Hemet, also in the Fun State. At this point two were drafted...
Last week it acquired another portion of the knowledge industry. As new chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Times Mirror selected Franklin Murphy, 52, chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles...
Bloomingdale, 5 1 , himself an inveterate traveler who thinks nothing of commuting between his California home and the Diners' Club Manhattan headquarters. The grandson of the founder of Bloomingdale's department store in New York City, he played tackle on the Brown University football team and after graduation in 1938 went to work for his grandfather's old store. Finding little satisfaction in a business no longer owned but still heavily influenced by his family ("You can't get fired that way"), he quit within a year to go into show business. Over the next...
...credit-card industry. With annual billings of $700 million, it stands behind American Express (over $1 billion) and ahead of third-ranking Carte Blanche ($135 million) among so-called "travel and entertainment" card systems. Also stepping up the nation's credit-card spree are banking institutions, led by California's Bank of America, whose highly successful BankAmericard enjoys annual billings of $458.9 million. For all the competition, the Diners' Club achieved profits during fiscal 1967 of $2,500,000, a 21% increase over the previous year. With its cards now honored in 137 countries, including Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia...
...fact is, there often is no message. Havens, 27, a Brooklyn-born Negro who performs with compelling fervor, exemplifies the tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...