Word: californianism
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...John Schmitz, who represents Nixon's home district in California, had been invited to cruise the Potomac aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia, but he announced that he was "breaking all relations with the White House" until the President "reverses this decision and apologizes for having made it." Another Californian, former Marine Captain George Brokate, publicly threw into a trash can a plaque of appreciation he had received from Nixon for donating $13,000 to his successful presidential campaign. He denounced Nixon as "just another tricky weather vane opportunist politician...
During the bidding, an anonymous Californian bid $5,000 for a case of rare Inglenook wine from the Napa Valley, by far the highest price ever paid for domestic produce. New York Restaurateur Joseph Santo paid $12,100 for a 55-case collection of French, German and American wines, which until recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case...
...staff of the Daily Californian, Berkeley's student newspaper, reached a compromise yesterday with the university's governing board which had demanded the ouster of three senior editors because of an editorial calling for the retaking of the People's Park...
Three senior editors of the Daily Californian, Berkeley's student newspaper, are continuing in their positions despite a university ruling Wednesday ordering their ouster because of an editorial calling for the retaking of the People's Park...
Money from the fees was used by the ASUC in the building of new offices for the Californian. Blodgett said last night that the administration has repeatedly claimed that since the Chancellor's office collects the membership fees, it is in fact the owner of the ASUC and thus has final control over the operation of the paper...