Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of San Mateo County's most densely populated area. Shirley is the odds-on favorite to win at least a plurality and possibly the 50%-plus-one-vote tally needed for election without a runoff. Nonetheless, as her opponents slug it out, they remind voters that California has already elected former Actors Reagan and George Murphy to high office and talk hopefully of a "Hollywood backlash...
When the thirsty Santa Ana wind began howling out of the Mojave Des ert last week, sucking dry the trees and chaparral, Southern California was only a spark away from a disastrous fire...
...Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. In all but three where the fires were caused by power lines downed in high winds or sparks from construction accidents, juveniles were under investigation for arson. The series of conflagrations was last month's second major outbreak in Southern California. Earlier, more than 80,000 acres were charred and 45 homes destroyed. With no rain in sight and the area's fire season extending from September to January, firemen were braced for the worst. Meanwhile, Governor Ronald Reagan promised he would ask a special session of the legislature "to consider...
...private investment, almost $1 billion in capital has flowed in since World War II, and Scotland has outpaced the rest of Britain in its industrial growth rate for three years. In Fife, for example, U.S. and British electronics manufacturers have built more than 100 new factories in a California-type complex along the Firth of Forth. Today Scotland turns out more electronic computers than any other country except the U.S.; Scots generate more electric power per capita with nuclear reactors than any other country...
...elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will "complicate existing problems of sex and perversion...