Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, October 18 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2-4 p.m.). Lew Alcindor's regular season N.B.A. debut with the Milwaukee Bucks is covered live from Milwaukee as his team takes to the basketball court against the Detroit Pistons. N.C.A.A. GAME (ABC, 4-7:30 p.m.). California v. U.C.L.A. from Los Angeles...
...community at large?though not without arousing resistance. In the affluent suburb of Westport, Conn., the representative town meeting bitterly debated for nearly three hours last week and then only narrowly passed, 17 to 15, a resolution asking immediate action to get the U.S. out of Viet Nam. In California's San Joaquin Valley, the Porterville police chief denied local residents permission to march down the customary Main Street route on their peace parade this week; the city council backed him up, and the protesters had to settle for a route around the edge of town...
...those who support President Nixon. People opposed to the Moratorium displayed flags. drove with their car headlights on, and listened to speeches. Sen. Barry Voldwater (R-Ariz.) told one crowd in Anaheim, California, that "Moratorium participants are playing into the hands of those whose business it is to kill American fighting...
...Berkeley, California, many Morator-ium events were rained out. But a crowd of 5,000 gathered in front of the main entrance to the university to pass out pamphlets urging students not to attend classes. Class attendance was down by 60 percent according to the Berkeley's Daily...
Cesar Chavez. organizer of the California grape strike, also spoke at the meeting, after finishing his own speech in Lowell Lecture Hall. Chavez extolled the role of students in this country and said that there was a feeling of solidarity between farm workers and students...