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Word: californiaisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genetic defect that leaves children completely paralyzed, deaf and blind by the time they are two, and is usually fatal by the age of four. Modern medicine knows no cure for Tay-Sachs (named for the physicians who first described the condition), but two scientists at the University of California's San Diego School of Medicine have now provided a means for detecting and avoiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metabolic Diseases: How to Detect A Faulty Gene | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...include physical blocking of a doorway and occupation of a building as well as throwing bricks and carrying guns. "The city will be prepared to act in advance of possible violence rather than reaction to it," promises Alioto. "We've seen too much of bayonets and buckshot in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prospects for Peace, Plans for Defense | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about it and, lashing out, takes an exaggerated policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality: The President's Analyst | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...admittedly unscientific methods and conclusions. But the convention delegates acclaimed his technique. President Watcher James MacGregor Burns thought that Barber's paper provided an "excellent link" between studies of presidential personalities and of the presidency as an institution. Government Professor Aaron Wildavsky, of the University of California, said it was "the best work in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality: The President's Analyst | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

Died. Right Reverend James A. Pike, 56, former Episcopal Bishop of California and one of the most controversial U.S. churchmen since World War II (see RELIGION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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