Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that arouses as much -» passion as the California grape strike, the subject of TIME'S cover story this week, inevitably poses a doubly difficult task for journalists. The simplest facts become fogged by rhetoric; rumor and innuendo abound and every source, it seems, has chosen sides. To meet this challenge, TIME'S Los Angeles bureau deployed nine correspondents and stringers across the Southwest. For several weeks, they toured the towns and vineyards, traveling thousands of miles and talking to hundreds of people for their report to Writer Keith Johnson and Editor Laurence Barrett...
...scenario writer in all of Hollywood could have handled the scene better. More than 200 guests were clustered around the pool at California Governor Ronald Reagan's home in Sacramento. Suddenly, little Alicia Berry, the seven-year-old daughter of one of the Governor's employees, slipped and fell into the pool. Out of the crowd darted none other than the former movie star himself. Fully clothed, Reagan dived into the pool and returned the sputtering child to her mother. Said Reagan, who spent seven summers as a lifeguard in his childhood home, Dixon, Ill.: "I never take...
...concert of "Spontaneous Sound" by Christopher Tree nearly always creates a mood of tranquillity and introspection, whether it be given in a bar or behind bars. From Kenny's Pub in Manhattan to California's San Quentin Prison. Tree has mesmerized audiences with the elemental tones he coaxes from his collection of almost 200 percussion and wind instruments. No two concerts are exactly the same. Tree shuns structure-and with it harmony and most other Western musical conventions-in favor of impulse. "Spontaneity is the essence of the creative act," he says. "Spontaneous music is much more vital...
...idea originated in-where else? -California. San Diego's United States National Bank has long used four-color pictures of a local statue, and in 1965 officials of the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco offered checks decorated with the silhouette of a stagecoach. Check writers as far away as Laos sent in requests to open new accounts at Wells Fargo, which bears the name of the old stagecoach company. Last year the San Francisco affiliate of the Bank of Tokyo started using line drawings of pine, bamboo and plum trees. In the past month, Bank of America...
...Racks. Federated's West Coast subsidiary, Bullock's-Magnin Co., has expanded considerably under its president, William Keeshan, 48. The debonair brother of Actor Bob Keeshan, who plays TV's Captain Kangaroo, Bill Keeshan spent 17 years learning the racks at Bullock's, a Southern California department-store chain; in 1963 he became head of Magnin's, a Bullock's subsidiary. He helped swing his firm's bitterly divided board in favor of Federated's takeover bid in 1964, and last year the parent company chose Keeshan to head the entire Bullock...