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Word: californiaisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the results reached the desk of the man who ordered the inquiry, Richard Nixon, who must ultimately weigh the choices and choose his course for extricating the nation from the longest war in its history. The timing was right, for at week's end Nixon flew off to California to continue the questioning in person. Meeting him there in a Pacific beach house at San Clemente were Ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker and the deputy U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Andrew Goodpaster. Accompanying the President was his chief foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, who boarded Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Creative Arts Building at San Francisco State College this month, a 19-year-old student was blinded and maimed. A security guard at the same college is still hospitalized from an injury suffered in an earlier bomb blast. Ghetto and campus violence seemed to coalesce at the University of California in Los Angeles when two Black Panthers were shot to death by members of a rival group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DANGER OF PLAYING AT REVOLUTION | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...signed an armistice. It was partly inspired by declining support for their cause and secretly worked out during ten days of negotiation with a faculty committee appointed by the school's acting president, Dr. Samuel I. Hayakawa. Governor Ronald Reagan called it "a victory for the people of California," but that remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Armistice at S.F. State | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...BIRDS. Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, California least tern, the Aleutian Canada and Tule white-fronted goose, Laysan and Mexican duck, California condor, Florida Everglade kite, Southern bald eagle, masked bobwhite, whooping crane, Yuma and light-footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...could be argued that the world does not need a new science, but Laurence J. Peter, a professor of education at the University of Southern California, has invented one. He calls it hierarchiology, or the study of hierarchies in modern organizations. According to a satiric new book called The Peter Principle (Morrow; $4.95), which he wrote with the help of Canadian Freelancer Raymond Hull, the basic premise of hierarchiology is that "with few exceptions men bungle their affairs." The proof? Look at any large bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: A Glossary of Incompetence | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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