Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that state, and that, despite the Californian's avowed wishes, his name will go on the ballot in the March primary, first in the nation. Rockefeller, however, was certain that, given time, Reagan would find Sacramento just as pleasant a place as he himself found Albany. His California colleague, Rocky remarked sweetly, should be judged as a presidential candidate only after he has been re-elected Governor-that is, some time after...
L.B.J. introduced him to White House reporters. "No one," said Johnson, "has done more to help us work with our economy" than Leslie T. Hope, 64, a wealthy, California-based cosmopolite whose unpaid avocation is promoting U.S. Government bonds. In a curiously disjointed response, the salesman touched on Shirley Temple Black's campaign for Congress ("Ev Dirksen is the only one who complains that one set of curls in Congress is enough"), gave informal confirmation to suspicions that he is a White House intimate. "Lynda looked just marvelous," said Hope, nicknamed Bob, "and I'm sure...
...when Geneticist George Beadle was teaching at Caltech, University of Chicago Law Dean Edward H. Levi persuaded him to give up a life of scholarship and research to take the Chicago presidency. A few years later, when the University of California sought out Levi as chancellor at Berkeley, Beadle told Levi, then Chicago's provost: "If you want to run a university, why don't you take my place and run this one?" Levi stayed on at Chicago-and last week he was named by its trustees to succeed Beadle, who will retire next year. Levi will become...
...often the case in science, researchers at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory were attempting to synthesize an entirely different isotope when mendelevium 258 was created. A team led by Nuclear Chemist E. Kenneth Hulet was using the laboratory's heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard a tiny amount of einsteinium (a transuranium element discovered in 1952) with alpha particles which consist of two protons and two neutrons. "We expected the alpha particles to join with the heavier isotope of einsteinium," says Hulet, "and then decay by a process called 'electron capture' to fermium...
...target after the bombardment. To their surprise, they discovered a minute amount-fewer than 30,000 atoms-of a mysterious and heavy isotope, which they later identified as mendelevium 258. Even stranger, the isotope-unlike many of its transuranium counterparts -appeared to be in no rush to disappear. The California scientists eventually determined that its half life (the time in which half the atoms of an element decay) was nearly two months. This compared, for example, with only eight seconds for lawrencium 257, until now the heaviest of the known atoms...