Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applied to the sites. Properly speaking, they say, "holy" is a word that applies to God alone, and only by analogy can it be extended to man-made objects. "Any suggestion that God is in a shrine or in some carving is idolatry," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's School of Theology at Claremont. "What is holy is the presence of God, which is everywhere brought into focus by an act of love." In this way of thinking, God's presence is to be discovered not only in a formal act of worship in a "sacred...
...effect in three Pennsylvania counties: Philadelphia, Allegheny (Pittsburgh) and Northampton (Easton). After the 1964 riots, Philadelphia reimbursed insurance companies $650,000 for riot claims, paying off at the rate of 750 on every dollar paid out by the companies. It still has outstanding claims of about $250,000. California repealed its 95-year-old liability law in 1963, two years before Watts. Now Californians can collect only by suing the private individual responsible or by proving negligence by individual officers, and suing them instead of the government...
Divorced. James A. Pike, 54, controversial Episcopal Bishop of California until he resigned his diocesan duties last year, now a fellow at Santa Barbara's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; by Esther Yanovsky Pike, 48; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (she said he stayed away from home), after 25 years of marriage, four children; in San Francisco...
...builders-often by merger, sometimes through joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents near Fort Lauderdale. Pennsylvania Railroad's Macco Realty Co. is developing an 87,500-acre Rancho California community near Los Angeles with Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. American Standard Inc., the nation's biggest plumbing manufacturer, this year joined a 4,500-house venture in California's Ventura County...
Ford's thoughts coincided with those of California Industrialist Edgar F. Kaiser, who also sensed a rising demand among Brazilians for more and better cars. Kaiser, with a 38% interest in Willys, has been building autos in Brazil since 1953, but has gradually realized that despite a lucrative business-Willys built 62,809 cars in Brazil last year -he has neither the technology nor the capital to keep up with a changing market. As part of a $40 million deal, he agreed to sell out to Ford...