Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...
Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the California House of Delegates, will be the decision-maker for the first show. "Smog Versus the Auto," to be aired October 5. The live, hour-long show concerns a bill in the California legislature which would ban the sale of internal combustion machines in the state after...
...their parents can talk out the enticements and dangers of drug use?often with the blunt help of ex-addicts barely older than the kids in school. The meetings expose underlying tensions very rapidly. Wayne Wilson, a psychologist who has helped former addicts set up education programs in several California communities, reported to a recent conference on drug abuse held at Rutgers University: "When we first moved into the schools, we soon found out that it didn't make any difference whether the kids were using drugs or not. After a moment, they were talking about all the problems...
...students have signed on the line, and the bankers expect that more than 4,000 will be using cards to pay for tuition or room and board at Ohio State before the year is out. The idea is likely to spread. It has already taken hold in California, where students at Stanford, San Jose State and throughout the University of California extension system have charged their education on the BankAmericard...
...would believe that when Movie Stars Jason Briar and Monica Ploy went on their publicity-stunt retreat in an abandoned abbey on the California coast they were nearly eaten by a scaly sea monster? Gossip Columnist Harriet Troom would, but then she actually was eaten by the monster when she sought out Jason and Monica for an exclusive. And who would believe that? Nobody, but the whole satirical fantasia on the Burton-Taylor legend in Harvey Jacobs' story In Seclusion is so funny that it doesn't matter...