Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the program has been successful in Washington and Maryland, McNamara and Ekman have chosen California as their next prime target. There, 102,000 servicemen live off base, and 32% of the housing near bases is segregated. At the same time, property owners in other states also will begin to feel pressure from Ekman's office. The lesson of Maryland is already rubbing off on landlords. "Every week thousands of voluntary units are turned in," exults Ekman...
...California Supreme Court last week similarly ordered such an anti-war proposal onto the San Francisco ballot on the basis of similar arguments...
Shaw's performance, while outstanding, was pretty much what Coach Bill McCurdy might have expected of him; the California ace holds the Harvard mile record...
...Francisco Merchant James Ir vine could hardly have reckoned the size of the legacy he set up back in the 1880s, when he wove three Spanish land grants into a single parcel of Southern California countryside. Rolling 22 miles inland from the Pacific coast, his Irvine Ranch has remained virtually intact as an 83,000-acre spread, nearly six times the size of Manhattan...
...Angeles Architect William Pereira's master plan (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963) to develop Irvine in an orderly way that will avoid swamping land values all around, block the spreading disarray of the ranch's municipal neighbor to the north. Centered on the University of California's new Irvine campus, for which the company shrewdly donated 1,000 acres in 1960, the plan calls for an industrial park (which already has 60 contracted occupants, including McDonnell Douglas and Xerox) and residential sectors now abuilding to combine into a self-supporting community...