Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...documentary materials. Among the former is a selection of African sculpture and objets d'art from the collection of Kenneth Patton. More important, however, are the items of American provenance. Two of these are huge polychrome portrait quilts crafted by a group of southern Negroes who migrated to California...
...SURF (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). ABC surveys the sport of "hanging ten," from the California beaches to Oahu, Hawaii...
...talk of California Governor Ronald Reagan's ascendant star in the Republican Party, the Gallup poll last week suggested he still had far to climb. The poll showed Richard Nix on maintaining a commanding lead among the Republican rank and file as a presidential preference. Nixon was the choice of 39% of Republicans polled, trailed by Michigan's Governor George Romney with 25%. But both have slipped a bit since the last sampling in May, while Reagan, who came in third, has increased his support from 7% to 11%. That places him one point ahead of New York...
Anybody with three nicknames like "Jim," "Red" and "Mac" figures to be pretty square. But freckle-faced James McGlothlin, star pitcher for the American League's California Angels, considers himself pretty far-out. "I smoke," he says. "And I drink-at family gatherings. Once I went to a nightclub. And once I had one too many, and my family sent...
...shared Prescott's ambition to start an airline. Undaunted by all the competition, most of which was soon to wither, Prescott sent his pilots barnstorming for business. The company hauled grapes from the West Coast to Georgia, took Elsie, the Borden Cow, from the East to a California county fair, even toted Roy Rogers' horse Trigger around the rodeo circuit. All the while, the hustling Prescott ("We would wash cars on Sunday morning if we had to") was buying up airplanes and "gambling that somehow we'd find a use for them." Not until...