Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offensive-missile force to speak of, though they had the ability to build one. U.S. development started in 1955 and soon led to the first, primitive ABM project, the Nike-Zeus. Testing showed that Zeus could indeed stop an incoming missile under ideal conditions; dummy aggressors launched from California were intercepted by defenders based on Kwajalein...
First, Sirhan's lawyers had to overcome his determination to seek death in California's gas chamber, even though his suicidal outbursts were silenced in court by Judge Herbert V. Walker (TIME, March 7). It was not, it transpired, that Sirhan objected to the prosecution's having read from his notebook diaries the passages recounting his resolve to kill Kennedy, an essential element of the prosecution's contention that he acted with premeditated malice. Sirhan would actually have preferred to die rather than subject his family to what he deemed the public shame of an airing...
...mutations of themselves. At American expatriate's face had been completely destroyed when he settled in Paris and had been rebuilt on the model of a stranger. One of the photographers had been a rock-and-roll star. The American unit publicist was on leave from a seminary in California, where he was preparing for the Unitarian Universalist ministry, his negotiations with the U.S. government on obtaining the brothel concession in Vietnam having fallen through...
...Oklahoma-born son of a furniture dealer, Bill Miller graduated from law school at the University of California in Berkeley. He was plucked from a job with a Wall Street law firm in 1956 by Textron's flamboyant founder, Royal Little. When Little retired four years later, Miller stepped into the presidency under Chairman Rupert Thompson, 63, an imaginative ex-banker. Thompson, a major stockholder, built Textron into New England's second largest company (after United Aircraft) before he turned over his chief executive's title to Miller a year...
Monterey Pop is a color-and-stereo-phonic-sound souvenir of the 1967 festival of rock music in California. Under the supervision of D. A. Pennebaker, who made Don't Look Back, the one widely seen verite documentary, more than half a dozen cameramen prowled the crowd catching the mood-but not the meaning-of the event. Several performers (Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar) come through with a jolting, immediate intensity, but watching Monterey Pop is like listening to an LP with pictures. Twenty years from now, the film may have value as a historical curiosity. Surely...