Word: californiaisms
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Big Sur,"Frank Gagliano's original fable, tells the tale of a middle-aged Midwesterner's drive to California. The role is played by Gene Troobnick; James Coco, Billy Dee Williams and Kate Harrington are some of the characters he meets along...
Pesticide poisoning has become a new issue in the four-year California grape pickers strike. Face swollen and complaining of dizziness and shortness of breath, a woman told the general counsel of the United Farm Workers, Jerome Cohen, that she had been drenched by wind-blown pesticides while working in a field. Other pickers have reported becoming sick after exposure to parathion and DDT. Cohen asked the Kern County agricultural commissioner for permission to see permits for pesticide spraying, which are required by California law. But before he could look at the records, three spraying companies obtained a court order...
Sweden's Response. The Farm Workers may have lost one round in the case, but the hearings gave them ammunition for a larger suit to ban the use of DDT in California. The most damning charge came from Dr. Irma West of the state department of public health. She testified that in 1965, one California farm worker died of pesticide poisoning, and between 200 and 300 had been nonfatally poisoned. In addition, some 1,000 workers had experienced "dermatitis, chemical burns of the skin and eyes, and other miscellaneous conditions resulting from contact with pesticides...
Last week, in the biggest venture of its kind for many years, three giants hammered together a joint enterprise. Hartford's Aetna Life & Casualty (assets: $8.6 billion) agreed to go into a partnership with California-based Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. They expect to move into commercial, industrial, residential, recreational and agricultural real estate. The three will pool $175 million in cash and properties. Among the latter are Aetna's 630-acre Warner Ranch near downtown Burbank, the Kaiser Companies' 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai residential and resort complex in Honolulu...
...Last month, Chicago-based C.N.A. Financial Corp., a major insurance combine, agreed to acquire Los Angeles' Larwin Co., the nation's largest privately owned home-building concern (1968 sales: $50 million). The price: $100 million in C.N.A. stock. Prudential Insurance recently bought a half interest in southern California's Westlake Village, a new town being built by Shipping Magnate Daniel Ludwig...