Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calmed campaign. No such gust was forthcoming, despite the earnest efforts of New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Rhode Island's John Chafee. Nixon, though undoubtedly relieved by the Governors' failure to rally behind Romney, also had reason to fret. A strong surge of support for California's Governor Ronald Reagan raised the threat that Nixon's conservative backing, the hope of his campaign, was ebbing...
...Romney fared somewhat better. To help keep his $1.1 billion budget balanced, he got a $270 million tax increase through the legislature, giving Michigan its first income tax. Reagan, meanwhile, had to sign California's biggest budget ever, a $5.1 billion package. Moreover, because the deadline was running out at the end of the fiscal year, he had to do so before the legislature acted on the $1 billion tax increase he requested. Reagan hopes to get the increase through by mid-July...
American Painting from 1670, though the Civil War, right up to the present day. Alfred Frankenstein, a practicing art critic (for the San Francisco Chronicle) who has lectured at the University of California and Mills College, should be good...
Find out what Gardner Ackley is getting at. This course is about Government (that is, our government) Policy towards Business, and it is taught by Martin Oettinger of the University of California. A course for our times...
...Harvard Law's valedictorian, Joe Sorrentino has received several offers to work for major U.S. law firms. Instead, he wants to serve a term as an assistant U.S. or state attorney in California. Concluding his valedictory address, Joe said: "Do not look for love, tragedy or trauma to explain this change. It was simply resolution from within"-and, he added, proof that "in America such things are possible." As he told a TIME correspondent last week, while studying for the California bar exam: "Many people say the U.S. system is a fraud. But this country is fair and generous...