Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of campaigning has gone up and up. Pierre Salinger's losing campaign for U.S. Senator in California cost $1,600,000; Reagan's for Governor cost $5,000,000, or roughly $1.60 per vote. Few of the expenses are on official record, since the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 stipulates that a Senator can spend only $25,000 on his campaign, a Representative $5,000. A candidate gets around this simply by setting up innumerable committees that collect and spend funds for his campaign without his "knowledge or consent." Thus Massachusetts' Senator Ted Kennedy, like many...
...surgery, requires so much delicacy and speed that student anesthesiologists usually take at least three months to learn it. With Sim One's help, the training time may be cut to two days. Developed under a $272,000 U.S. Office of Education grant by the University of Southern California School of Medicine and Aerojet-General's Von Karman Center, the robot is life-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.). Its skin feels like skin, and it comes equipped with a tongue, vocal cords, an esophageal opening and bronchial tubes...
Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer may have the drop on the rest of the rookie crew with California's Mike ("Super Jew") Epstein, who stands 6 ft. 3½ in., weighs 238 Ibs., has a Star of David stenciled on his glove and can belt a baseball clear out of sight. The only trouble Hank has with Mike is carrying on a conversation. Mike, who studies social psychology in the offseason, likes to quote Socrates, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson; even when he is talking baseball, he tosses off such words as indigenous and meaningfulness. Bauer finally had to take...
...Oxford: the 113th Oxford-Cambridge boat race, by an easy 3¼ lengths on London's Thames River. With California's Jonathan Jensen rowing No. 4 and Connecticut's John Bockstoce in the bow, the Dark Blue eight swept into the lead at the start, maintained a steady beat of 34 strokes per min., and stayed in front for the full 4 miles...
...assails the war, as do many other underground papers, it seems equally alarmed over school rules against short dresses and long hair. There is something wrong with teachers, argues the Worrier, who are "more interested in their students' legs than in their minds." Belligerently political, the Worrier calls California Governor Ronaid Reagan's administration "the Ronnie Raygun Show...