Word: californiaisms
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...academic year of elementary and secondary schools has lengthened by one-third in the past 50 years. Today 90% of teen-agers are in high school, against 60% in the pre-World War I days. The increase in travel is equally spectacular. A trip to Florida or California or New York is within the reach of tens of millions who would not have dreamed of it a half-century ago. A trip to Europe is commonplace for many. In 1915, 23,000 passports were issued or renewed by the U.S. State Department; this year the figure is approaching...
RONNIE GETS GOP FROM LEKA, SON OF ZOG, the headline might have run-and every word would have been true. California's Governor Ronald Reagan, 56, has been friendly for years with Prince Leka, 28, the throneless son of Albania's late King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento...
...Your Clinic Will Burn." Furious, Dr. Giorgi stormed into the OEO's offices in Washington with a plan for a medical center outlined on a piece of note paper. OEO bought the idea, and within a year, through the University of Southern California's medical school, had funded the new Watts Health Center. Built on land leased from Los Angeles for $1 a year, the center was opened last month. At the dedication ceremony, a young firebrand of Watts's Black Power movement introduced Dr. Giorgi to the crowd. As she mounted the podium, the young...
...Tuesday, 10 p.m.). Though Eric Sevareid is the reporter of record, the program is Hoffer, the shirtsleeved philosopher from the San Francisco waterfront, whose aphorisms and world views have sold 700,000 books (The True Believer, The Temper of Our Time) and have produced disciples from the University of California's Clark Kerr to Dwight Eisenhower...
Primarily Political. Warren had a long career in public life before coming to the court. In all three major areas where the court has left its mark. Warren had previously taken opposite stands. During 23 years as deputy district attorney, then D.A. of Alameda County and attorney general of California, he was, as he puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts...