Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempo brisker than any heard since Lyndon Johnson's happiest days?and the tune was pretty much the President's. Nixon returned to the capital early in the week from his round-the-world tour with stops in Asia and Rumania; six days later, he flew to California for a month's vacation on the Pacific oceanfront, with a state dinner for the Apollo 11 astronauts in Los Angeles scheduled for this week. It was what came between jet journeys that counted...
...anthropological studies have focused on the people of South and Southwest Asia and on the California Indians. She is known especially for The People of Alor (1944), a social-psychological study of primitive life on a small Indonesian island east of Java...
...closer inspection, the California attorney general's office decided that the organization's spiel was sufficiently false to warrant prosecution as a felony under the state's anti-fraud statutes...
...never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying 'Only we have this plan,' and then saying 'Don't tell anyone what we told you or we'll boot you out.' And then no one would know until after...
...sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning to bring the overexuberant U.S. economy under control. "Inflation is being wrung out of the stock market," says Walter E. Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The correction is a prerequisite to a resumption of healthy growth...