Word: californiaisms
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...states that are already levying heavy income and sales taxes? New York, for one, is trying to flesh out its $4.3 billion in annual revenues with a state lottery, but ticket sales in the first month totaled less than one-fourth of the anticipated $30 million take. The California legislature last week approved Governor Ronald Reagan's request for a record $1 billion in new taxes, but only after a bitter political struggle...
Some states are groping toward solutions. New York and Rhode Island are holding constitutional conventions this summer, and as many as 16 other states may soon revamp outdated charters. California is trying to attract better legislators with better pay (annual salaries were raised from $6,000 to $16,000 last year), research staffs and offices of their own. In Illinois, where lawmakers use corridors as offices, a new $18 million legislative office building will soon be built. But improvements come slowly. State governments are more often characterized by "stagnation and inertia," says the C.E.D. report, than by drive and initiative...
...last year's first-place team, were in eighth place, and the Chicago White Sox, last year's fourth-place team, were in first. Add to that the fact that the three toughest clubs in the league at the moment were 1) the Washington Senators, 2) the California Angels, and 3) the Boston Red Sox, all of which were patsies last year, and the plot for the 1967 pennant race was purely theater of the absurd...
...second division, and there is no apparent reason for them to travel abroad this year. Their team batting average, for example, is a horrendous .223. But last week the Senators beat the Kansas City Athletics 6-4, for their 14th victory in their last 19 games. The California Angels are hardly less startling. They do have a first-rate pitcher in Jim Mc-Glothlin, but only two men in the lineup are batting over .250. Even so, until they lost two out of three to the Red Sox last week, the Angels had dropped only one series to another team...
...binge began when California's 17-year-old Mark Spitz, who already held the world marks for the men's 100-meter butterfly and 400-meter freestyle, added the 200-meter butterfly to his collection with a 2-min. 6.4-sec. clocking that pared .2 sec. off the record set in 1964 by Australia's Kevin Berry. Then, swimming the first leg of the men's 400-meter freestyle relay, Michigan's Ken Walsh, 22, was timed in 52.6 sec. for 100 meters, bettering the old mark...