Word: californiaisms
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Since redwoods grow only in the moderate, foggy climate of northern California and southern Oregon, most loggers and conservationists agree that a large national park should be created in that area to preserve the oldest trees amidst their majestic natural setting. But even the most ardent conservation ists cannot get together on how many of them should or could be spared. The California-based Sierra Club is calling for a 90,000-acre park (including 13,-210 acres already in state parks), which would cost $140 million to acquire. San Francisco's 49-year-old Save-the-Red-woods...
...commissioners are convinced that many more inmates should be paroled. For prison experience unquestionably boosts the chance that an offender will break the law again. In one experiment, conducted by the California Youth Authority, a group of convicted juvenile delinquents were given immediate parole and returned to their homes or foster homes, where they got intensive care from community parole officers. After five years, only 28% of this experimental group have had their paroles revoked, compared to 52% of a comparable group that was locked up after conviction...
...Battles. The detectors range in cost from $35 (for a 30-lb. World War II surplus piece) to $139.50 (for a streamlined, 3-lb. Metrotech model). The discoveries they have produced range in value from tin cans and tenpenny nails (worth nothing and found everywhere) to a $10 California gold piece dated 1849 (worth $1,250 and found near Savannah...
...tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began as an anticlerical movement, by and large today, at least in America, it is a movement of the clergy...
Andrew Brimmer, 40, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and the first Negro to sit as a governor of the Fed, packs his frequent speeches with unprecedented detail about the board's thinking. Sherman Maisel, 48, an easy-money housing expert who taught at the University of California, has startled most colleagues by faulting the Treasury (for selling gold for $35 per ounce), the Budget Bureau (for incomprehensible bookkeeping) and the Council of Economic Advisers (for bad liaison with...