Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such advances sufficient to win the overall battle? No, says Professor Kingsley Davis, director of international-population and urban research at the University of California. Davis, in the Nov. 10th issue of Science, writes that the family-planning programs as presently conceived and executed cannot prevent the world from rapidly populating itself to doomsday...
...lightweight, one-sided brace that allows far more freedom of movement and more natural walking has now been introduced at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The new device is bound to the leg by the familiar calf band of reinforced leather; an aluminum bar runs down the outside of the leg. At the ankle, it is hinged to a semicircular metal yoke that fits loosely around the heel of the shoe. This first hinge-type joint permits up-and-down motion. On the yoke behind the heel is a second joint bearing a metal pin that...
...weeks after quitting, got a job at Funk & Wagnalls Publishing Co. in Manhattan. "I was completely honest on my job application," he says. "I just put down that I was a laicized priest, and that sent them to their dictionary." Still others end up in less likely pursuits. A California cleric has become a chiropractor. One Biblical scholar now works for a company that makes rocket components...
...states, which suggests maximum penalties of one to three years for such offenses as card theft or possession of forging machinery or blanks. With the backing of every other major credit card issuer, the statute is being pushed in all states. So far, North Carolina, Florida and California have all adopted it. New York has scheduled consideration of it for next January's legislative session...
...make road signs still more easily recognizable, the committee also recommended greater use of uniform symbols, such as the European-style no-entry sign with a white horizontal bar on a red circle. After California installed such signs-which were lettered DO NOT ENTER-on its freeway exits two years ago, the number of fatalities caused by drivers heading up the down ramps was cut in half...