Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most satisfying parts of our work," says Maria Luisa, "is simply putting our readers in touch with other people-so they can exchange ideas and even help solve a problem." She remembers a Hungarian agronomist who had read in TIME about a California farmer whose artichoke crop was being ruined by mice. We gave him the farmer's address, and perhaps, after all, he did have a better mousetrap...
...Luci Nugent, Major Charles Robb and Lynda. They had come all the way from Texas for the latest extravaganza by Richard Nixon Productions Inc., a 61st birthday moveable feast for L.B.J. that started in San Clemente and ended in the new Redwood National Park, 800 miles farther up the California coast. It was an unlikely summit meeting between two old political enemies and, as it turned out before the long day was over, a remarkable duet performance in the politics of reconciliation...
Aetna Life and Casualty Co., for example, has formed a fifty-fifty partnership with Kaiser Industries to develop more than 90,000 acres of potential residential and industrial tracts in California and Hawaii that company officials figure are worth about $175 million. INA has also bought 25% of a chain of Eastern nursing homes. "We aren't interested in financing businesses of this kind," explains" President John Gurash. "We are interested in being in those businesses...
Public utility companies have prided themselves for years on their efficiency and their friendly relations with their customers. Now their erstwhile friends are furious over high rates or poor ser vice, and often over both at once. At least a dozen utilities from Pennsylvania to California have recently applied for permission to raise their charges. If granted, the increases could add nearly $400 million to U.S. gas and electric bills. Such moves normally stir up only routine opposition, but this year U.S. consumers are displaying an increasing choler over the cost and condition of all kinds of goods and services...
...California-bound business executive walked into a branch of the First National City Bank in Manhattan last week and picked up a pair of tickets for a Hollywood Bowl concert. A Manhattan-bound Angeleno bought tickets for the Broadway hit Oh! Calcutta! at a Beverly Hills hotel. Both made their purchases through computer networks that are striving to bring the box office closer to the increasingly choosy buyer...