Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American Eagle-beating her by 9 min. 44 sec. over the 24.3-mile course-and showed her stern to California's Columbia...
This year the Broadway season opens in California - at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater on Sept. 12. The occasion is the U.S. premiere (and pre-New York run) of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, his last discovered work and a sequel to A Touch of the Poet. The star is Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance since 1946. And even if that combination fails to catch on, Broadway abounds with portents for one of the better seasons in years...
...town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California...
...with California-style fruits and vegetables that the boldest technological advances are likely to appear next. Scientists at the University of California at Davis have developed a lettuce picker with a sensing mechanism that "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ready for harvest. Similarly, an asparagus harvester is electronically activated only by stalks of the proper shape and size. For such products as apricots and olives, engineers are experimenting with shaking-and-catching devices already in use on prunes, peaches and apples; a mechanical arm clutches the tree and shakes it until the fruit drops into...
...shopping for bric-a-brac they developed techniques by which they now buy clothes for Truc, their most successful enterprise. They buy in small batches, from a dozen little stores in New York and California, and strictly according to their own tastes...