Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Dean Martin, Susan Hayward and Martin Balsam engage in a political chess game for the governorship of California...
...admits retired Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 60. Even so, a good many of his friends think that with all those opinions of his, notably about the war in Viet Nam, Curt might be a natural in politics. So he is being urged to go up against California's moderate Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel next year. In Santa Barbara, LeMay allowed that "if a real movement gets going for me, I might consider...
...some 200 quasars (quasi-stellar sources) have been discovered since the first one was identified in 1960, scientists have been unable to agree on the nature, or even the size or distance of the mysterious starlike objects. Quasar controversies have so rocked the once stable world of astronomy that California Institute of Technology Astronomer Jesse Greenstein has been driven to poetic expression...
...have now discovered a new quasar that is apparently farther, brighter and more enigmatic than any other yet found. Designated 0237-23, it was first detected and pinpointed by Astronomer John Bolton with the 210-ft. radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Using coordinates supplied by Bolton, California Astronomers Halton Arp and Thomas D. Kinman zeroed in on the quasar with the 200-in. optical telescope at Mount Palomar and the 120-in. Lick Observatory telescope...
...University of California at Berkeley gained 20 fellowships, the most in the nation. Columbia led the Ivy League with 15, while the combined Ivy total...