Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really knows for sure whether animals in REM sleep actually dream, but they apparently undergo a learning process. University of California Psychologist William Fishbein has found that laboratory mice taught to expect electric shocks at the end of laboratory alleyways develop amnesia about their painful experience after they have been deprived of REM sleep. It is now provable that the more advanced a creature is, the more it can learn-and the more REM sleep it has. Humans in infancy, learning more intensely than they ever will again because everything is new to them, spend 50% of their sleep...
While in college, Benti did part-time broadcasting, later worked at TV stations from Missouri to California. He settled down at Los Angeles KNXT, a CBS-owned-and-operated station, where he became political editor. He chaired the Western Regional Desk during the network's election coverage in 1968, and was heard by millions as anchor man on the news reports following the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy...
...reader may wish to compare this proposal with that for a new all-black college in California detailed by W. H. Ferry of the Center for Democratic Institutions. Ferry's rationale is printed in the recent March issue of The Center Magazine, followed by comments on the proposal from Robert M. Hutchins, Neil Jacoby, Stringfellow Barr, Harrop A. Freeman, and a black graduate student, John C. Barnes...
...KESEY and TOM WOLFE--Wolfe wrote the book (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) about Kesey's organizing the Merry Pranksters, who crossed the U.S. in a bus with him, and threw huge parties in California with LSD in the Kool-Aid. The book is a milestone in acid literature, and probably the only good thing directly about the experience. Kesey has written Sometimes A Great Notion, a book that really flows, since he started taking the drug. And the Merry Pranksters are the ones who put fluorescent paint in psychedelics...
...established U.S. airlines in the Pacific, Pan Am and Northwest, came in for minor rejiggering. Pan Am lost a great-circle route to Tokyo from Seattle and Portland but kept a new run to Japan from New York. Nixon denied Northwest a great-circle route to Tokyo from California, but allowed its new central Pacific route to Japan through Hawaii to stand...