Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...
...such area-wide concerns as water conservation, smog control and sewage disposal in his $218-a-week post as ABAG's No. 2 man, Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where he was known as a generous tipper and a big, if unlucky, chemin de fer player...
...Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper bonanza as personal mail. Investigators said that he had deposited the checks-including one for $399,649-in bank accounts under various names. In Las Vegas, he was known as Troy Thompson and carried a California driver's license in that name...
...necessary. For the first time in history, a society found itself so advanced materially that human beings no longer got enough exercise in the search for sustenance. Estimates suggest that 40 million Americans have a temperamental indisposition to any kind of hard physical work. Research by the University of California's Dr. Hardin Jones indicates that, if the circulatory system is any clue, the average U.S. male becomes middle-aged...
They include such high-quality liberal arts schools as Claremont Men's Col lege in California and Hanover College in Indiana. Also among them are New Mexico's Artesia College, which is still too new to be accredited, and a dozen little-known institutions operated by fundamentalist churches...