Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey would be available to throw out the first ball at the Washington Senators' opening game this week-a fact that could not really displease the Senators, who have lost three straight openers with Johnson and Humphrey on the hill. For their home opener, the luckier California Angels acquired the services of Governor Ronald Reagan, a pitcher with experience: he once played the part of Grover Cleveland Alexander in a movie called The Winning Team...
Only last month a California court tried to answer such questions in the nation's first A.I.D. criminal case. At issue was the fate of Christopher Sorensen, 6, a product of artificial insemination to which his mother's sterile husband, Steelworker Folmer J. Sorensen, had agreed. After a 1964 divorce, the boy lived with his mother, who bitterly refused any financial aid from Sorensen. When Mrs. Sorensen became ill and applied for welfare funds last year...
Chase Manhattan implied might be a pretty sound idea. Two days later, President Rudolph A. Peterson of California's Bank of America went even fur ther. In a talk to the New York Chamber of Commerce, he argued that "as a last resort" the U.S. should refuse to sell gold if the gold drain becomes "intolerable." He added that "there is no overwhelming reason why we should sustain the dollar value of gold. We may have to reconsider our gold-buying policy...
...Angeles ice cream and catering business two years ago to become the operator of a boat marina at the fledgling Arizona town of Lake Havasu City. Foster's spirit is typical of the 2,500 settlers in three-year-old Havasu, an "instant city" built by the California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. along part of the 45-mile lake behind Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River...
...Wilson reported to Commons last week, "We did not wait to settle matters of finance, compensation or legal liability." Now that the crisis is abating, he continued, "the government is urgently considering the question of claims." Britain, said the Prime Minister, intends to sue the Union Oil Co. of California for damages due to the wreck of its supertanker. If the suit ever gets to court, it will further complicate what is fast becoming not only the most costly maritime accident in history but also the most complex...