Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears that operators of supersonic transports may have a happier choice. On the basis of preliminary experiments, two scientists at California's Northrop Corp. believe that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
...trial at Buddhist living was the latest experiment in learning at California's far-out, freedom-loving Pacific High School. A private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they...
...year before. A concerted attack is being waged on grounds that it is cruel and inhuman vengeance, does not work as a deterrent and is otherwise archaic. Suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund have blocked all executions in Florida and California until the question of whether or not the death sentence is still constitutional can be resolved in court...
Offering everything from garden tools to groceries to girdles at discount prices, the new complex will be the latest of 30 White Front stores that Interstate has strung through California. It will also be the showplace of a fast-growing nationwide retailing chain that now numbers 114 stores, including Topps stores through the East and Midwest and toy-selling Children's Supermart stores in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, as well as 31 conventional department stores in 12 states...
...selling Sunset Petroleum, which had $20 million worth of losses in California real estate last year and plunged Sunasco deeply into the red. The buyer: Manhattan's Commonwealth United Corp., a movie-making (The Pawnbroker) and -distributing company with realty and insurance sidelines. Price: $25.2 million, paid in Commonwealth stock. In an accompanying deal akin to a divorce settlement, Sunasco lined the coffers of money-shy Sunset with $ 1,000,000 in cash and $8.6 million worth of Sunasco stock-chiefly in exchange for Sunset's interest in five California realty ventures...