Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, May 15 TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Attitudes of the World's Youth Toward World Problems," a trans atlantic panel discussion via Early Bird satellite between a group of students from English universities on one hand and California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York Senator Robert Kennedy on the other. Charles Collingwood directs the give-and-take from London...
...Eligio de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez represent Texas in Congress. Joseph Montoya represents New Mexico in the Senate. As for use of contraceptives, the Mexican people are not only "Catholic inspired," but also hampered by poverty and lack of information. "Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California. The comment about "ebullient oles and accurately hurled wine bottles" stretches literary license. The word cholo is pejorative and equivalent to "nigger," "kike" and other racial epithets. Pocho is also derogatory, and so are pachuco, gringo-landia, and agringado...
Says the University of California's Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, one of the deans of U.S. pharmacology: "Rarely has a new drug come so quickly to the judgment of the members of the health professions with so much verifiable data from so many parts of the world, from both animals and man, as to its safety and efficacy." Only in the last few weeks, since some members of Congress began to complain about DMSO as "the persecuted drug," has the FDA hinted that it may soon permit a genuine resumption of the investigation...
...recent performances. Ruken, who has done most of his campaigning in California, rules the second favorite with probable odds at 7-2. A come-from-behind triumph in the rich Santa Anita Derby, a narrow decision over Successor in an allowance race, and an easy triumph in the Stepping Stone Purse last Saturday are Ruken's major achievements...
Three other colts will receive fair support at the windows. Reason to Hail boasts a handy victory over mediocre competition in the California Derby, but he had no excuse when beaten five lengths by Damascus a month...