Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gustav Mahler Society of California...
...leading up to a toast with California Cabernet Sauvignon, Johnson made the first intimation that the meeting should be continued. "We would like to have the opportunity," he said, "to sit down further and discuss aspects of the anti-ballistic missile system, nonproliferation, perhaps some questions arising out of the Middle East situation, and at least the situation in Southeast Asia, as well as questions of mutual interest in Europe and the Western Hemisphere." Later, Kosygin made a firm suggestion for the second session...
...assemble to jeer the President when he arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles. The morning of Johnson's speech before a $500-a-plate President's Club dinner, a three-page ad proclaimed: "As of this date, we 8,000 Democrats of Southern California are disassociating ourselves from you because of your conduct of the war in Viet...
About 1,300 police, one of the largest security forces ever gathered in California, unfortunately turned the scene into ugly chaos. They suddenly began flailing their night sticks wildly at students, women and children, who were unable to move as ordered because other police squads were pushing them from the rear and sides. The mass of marchers unavoidably spilled into the police lines, and when they did, they were beaten again. After half an hour, the demonstrators' monitors started to disperse the moiling crowds and avert what might soon have become a far uglier scene than its pacific entrepreneurs...
Alabama's George Wallace has insisted all along that he will be a third-party presidential candidate only if the Democrats and Republicans nominate candidates whose views he opposes. Last week Wallace could wait no longer. With his blessing, right-wing California Publicist William K. Shearer, 36, launched the American Independent Party, with plans to organize state committees nationwide...