Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Willwerth, 24, first worked for TIME when he was a stringer at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, from which he holds a master's degree in journalism-political science. He was attached to our San Francisco bureau before he moved to New York as a reporter for The Nation...
Other Trails. On the West Coast, California's Governor Ronald Reagan turned an invitation to the U.S.C.-Oregon State football game into an excuse for two days of non-campaigning in the Pacific Northwest. He showed up in Seattle for a G.O.P. fund-raising lunch, attended a party dinner in Portland that evening, rode horseback in the Veterans' Day Parade in Albany, Ore., the following day. Reagan, of course, still bills himself as a noncandidate, but his protestations of late have rung increasingly hollow...
During a 5,100 mile tour of military bases from Georgia to California and back to Virginia, the President repeatedly returned to his theme-using Veteran's Day as his cue. "For these Americans," he said of the troops at Fort Benning, "Viet Nam is no academic question. It is not a topic for cocktail parties, office arguments or debate from some distant sidelines. Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds...
...cabin near Blossom Prairie, Garner took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...
McCarthy will enter the primaries in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and California. New Hampshire has not been ruled out, but the senator seems to be leaning toward the advice of those who argue against it. Unless Wayne Morse makes a move in Oregon, McCarthy will have no choice there. All candidates are entered there unless they sign a disclaimer...