Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINGER PRESENTS HERB ALPERT & THE TI JUANA BRASS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Herb's brass rings out from mountain to shore as the group plays its hits on location in Southern California. Repeat...
LINDSAY FOR PRESIDENT said the sign at the University of Southern California's Great Issues forum, where the turnout of 1,700 was the largest anyone could remember. Lindsay, of course, forswears national candidacy "under any circumstances," insists that his besting of Lyndon Johnson in a recent poll interests him not a "teeny-weeny bit," and argues that his disinclination is so pervasive that he makes "Sherman look like a lightweight." But when he met Governor Ronald Reagan for the first time, the conservative Californian said the liberal New Yorker simply had to be considered a potential candidate. Perhaps...
...congressional primary in Northern California's San Mateo County attracted national attention largely because Shirley Temple, who as a child was every moviegoer's lollipop, was in the race. But Mrs. Shirley Temple Black, 39, mother of three and as conservative as could be, was not a hit at the ballot box. She lost the Republican race to Attorney Paul N. McCloskey, a moderate, by 52,878 votes...
...party analysis of the vote in the traditionally Republican district was complicated by California's rules for special elections. On showing up at the polls, voters could decide to vote either Democratic or Republican no matter how they were registered. In this freewheeling situation, G.O.P. Winner McCloskey got well over three times the number of votes that went to the Democratic winner, and even the vanquished Shirley bested Archibald by more than 2 to 1. "A lot of Democrats went over to defeat that girl," said Archibald. "They'll come to my side...
Coming Downhill. In the bright sky over California's Mojave Desert, Adams unhooked from the B-52 mother ship that had carried him aloft to 45,000 ft. Then his ammonia and liquid-oxygen rocket motor ignited with 60,000 lbs. of thrust, hurtling him skyward for 80 sec. until his fuel burned out. Seconds before he glided upward to "go over the top" at his peak altitude of 261,000 ft., Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft...