Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, American courts consistently held that an alcoholic was responsible for his public drunkenness, because he had started drinking voluntarily. But in 1962, the Supreme Court began eroding that fiction by ruling in Robinson v. California that drug addiction is a sickness that cannot be deemed a crime without violating the Eighth Amendment guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." In 1966, two U.S. appellate courts invoked Robinson to excuse alcoholics from charges of public intoxication. Yet in this past term, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from an alcoholic despite a sharp dissent by Justice Abe Fortas...
...taxes-which would further erode corporate profits-seemed to curb investors' appetite for industrial stocks. While some high-flying issues floundered-among them Xerox, Polaroid, Itek, Teledyne and Fairchild Camera-old favorites moved up nicely. General Motors gained $5.25, to $84.88, and Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Standard Oil of California, Chrysler, and General Electric also gained substantially. American Telephone & Telegraph rose 88? a share to $53 after the company announced that it will fight a Federal Communications Commission finding that it is making too much money for a public utility. Long among the most depressed of the blue chips...
...common issues listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its relatively restrained rise has mirrored investors' doubts about the profit prospects of some of the D.J. giants in currently or recently troubled fields: steel (U.S. and Bethlehem Steel), autos (General Motors and Chrysler), oils (Texaco, Standard of California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares outstanding, it takes substantial sums from investors to push their prices up more than a mite. Many Wall Street...
...travel agencies, weary of handling different tickets for some 40 U.S. airlines, in 1965 began using a single form that can be filled out for any flight on any carrier. Crooks liked the idea too-and heisted 5,000 blanks last winter from three agencies in New York and California. The hot tickets are complete with forged agency stamps and authentic air-linese ("ORD" for Chicago's O'Hare Airport, "FCO" for Rome's Fiumicino Airport). One turned up for an around-the-world trip valued...
...cars were roofless carriages that exposed their hardy riders to billowing dust, scorching sunshine and drenching rain. Soon pioneers of the automobile spread a canvas canopy over their heads, and the convertible was born. The Peerless Motor Car Corp. of Cleveland introduced its Cape Folding Top in 1905; the "California top"-a removable steel roof with glazed windows-came along in the '20s to decorate the touring car. For the young at heart, whizzing down a highway in an open convertible became the epitome of driving fun. Plymouth made a big hit with prewar youth by bringing...