Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuals in metropolitan San Francisco, I look forward to the day when California will follow the lead of Great Britain and reform the laws dealing with our behavior [July 14]. The life we homosexuals lead is difficult enough because of prejudice and ignorance. The laws proscribing sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex create a paradise for blackmailers and an inferno for those of us who ask no more than to be accepted on our own merits...
...Frank Duehay, Assistant Dean of the School of Education served on an advisory committee which helped Mazer and the M.I.T. group plan the conference. Also included on the advisory committee are Dr. Benson Snyder, Professor Gerald Zacarias, both of M.I.T., and Professor Martin Trow from the University of California...
...chubby California housewife, "Jillie Bean," as friends call her, is the No. 1-ranked woman player in the world -but at home last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that...
...accidents of nature and wealth, many of the most interesting stellar objects are inaccessible to the earth's most powerful optical telescopes. The objects are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere; the biggest telescopes, such as the massive 200-inch instrument atop California's Mount Palomar, are located in the Northern Hemisphere...
...stock swap, Boise Cascade acquired Indianapolis' U.S. Land Inc., which thrives by building artificial lakes in northern Virginia or California's Mother Lode country, then selling the land around them for residential and resort use. With the purchase, Boise Cascade became the nation's most thoroughly integrated company in the housing field...