Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare moment, most of the U.S. seemed to be soothed and quiet. Except for the death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Camille, as summer drew to an end the nation basked in unwonted and unfamiliar calm. In California, President Nixon golfed and tended to minor matters of state with equal equanimity. The nation found solace in the reassuring trivia of routine. President and people took their cue from one another; each appeared to turn aside from grave national concerns to private delights of leisure. While it was scarcely the best of all possible worlds that Voltaire's caricature philosopher...
...canter out of the woods to a telephone. In Los Angeles, the fizz and even the anti-fuzz had gone out of this month's Watts Festival, the annual community commemoration of the 1965 riots that were the first of the recent major race riots; everybody in Southern California was at the beach. "We've had a pretty good summer," said Patrolman Nick Giordano as he handed out an occasional ticket for jaywalking in Manhattan's Union Square. "Quiet. I only hope to God it will stay that...
...anyone would want the impoverished, California-size region nearly defies understanding. Indeed, the government of Indonesia's President Suharto, who commanded the forces ordered to "liberate" West Irian from Dutch control in 1962, long ago lost any real enthusiasm for the remote and unrewarding territory. But Indonesia's sense of Manifest Destiny was involved. For decades, Indonesians have always rallied to the cry "From Sabang to Merauke!" -from the westernmost island of the 3,000-island archipelago to the easternmost hamlet in West Irian. Said Frans Kaisieppo, the governor of West Irian: "It has become a religious conviction...
...years ago, a somewhat older group at the California Institute of Technology struck a blow for "relevant" education by organizing a useful research project geared to smog-ridden Los Angeles. Among their achievements to date is a car-pool plan for factory workers that helps to cut down auto exhaust fumes, the chief ingredient of smog. They have also discovered that the cost of smog damage to the average Los Angeles householder is closer to $125 a year than to the $65 estimated by local officials...
...creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...