Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming...
Richard Nixon's well-worn hat settled gently last week on the rim of the 1968 presidential ring. In Bonn, West Germany, shortly after beginning a 21-month world tour, he acknowledged establishment of a national "Nixon for President Committee" headed by California's former Republican State Chairman Gaylord Parkinson...
Parkinson, 48, the man who got California's Republicans to stop feuding and help elect Reagan Governor, retired as state chairman when his two-year term ended in January. An obstetrician who delivers more votes than babies, Parkinson has been an admirer of Nixon's for nearly two decades. "He is the man most eminently qualified as a national leader," says Parkinson. "He's respected everywhere around the world...
...legacies of the land are more deeply embedded in American emotions than the Grand Canyon and the redwood forests of Northern California. Yet, because of their commercial potential, conservationists have had to fight to preserve them. Only last month they beat off-for the time being-an Administration attempt to build two dams that would have flooded both ends of the Grand Canyon. Now their principal concern is the soaring redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens...
Professor Sherwood, Washborn of the University of California will speak on "100 Years of Biological Anthropology" at 4 p.m. today in Lowell Lecture Hall...