Word: californiaisms
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Jack and Elaine Kirschke were nothing if not adult about adultery. He liked women and she liked men, and neither was a spoilsport. There was only one house rule for their not-quite-home on vogueish Rivo Alto Canal in Naples, California: when one party had the pad, the other stayed away...
...remained confident. "I'm an officer of the court," he said. "I trust in God, and I have faith in our American system of criminal justice." The police released him, after the interrogation, but the investigation went on. Last week, after 31 days of testimony from 36 witnesses, California Assistant Attorney General Al Harris persuaded a grand jury that he had punctured Jack Kirschke's hermetic alibi. The erstwhile prosecutor was indicted on two counts of murder, arraigned, and given until June 23 to formulate his plea...
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Harold Howe II, LL.D., U.S. Commissioner of Education. Eugene J. McCarthy, LL.D., U.S. Senator, Minnesota. Franklin D. Murphy, LL.D., chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles...
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Dr. Clark Kerr, L.H.D., former president of the University of California...
When San Francisco-area Episcopalians chose the Right Rev. C. Kilmer Myers as Bishop of California last September, there was some hope that he might prove a little less of a headlinemaker than his resigning predecessor, James A. Pike. No such luck. Soon after he was elected bishop, Myers denounced the Episcopal Church for being guilty of "the heresy of racism." A fervent Viet Nam dove, Myers later attacked Francis Cardinal Spellman's statements supporting the war as "outrageous," and piously implored: "May God and Pope Paul forgive him." Last week Myers suggested that all of Christianity should accept...