Word: californianism
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Except for busting Sachs in the snoot ("He called me a liar") and admitting that the track did seem "a little slippery," Parnelli Jones carefully steered clear of the rhubarb. A balding, broken-nosed Californian who began racing at 18, Jones had something else on his mind: deciding how to spend his share of the $148,513 winner's purse...
...really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming, in the guise of a freewheeling young minister (Cliff Robertson), sets everything in order, including problems of ear washing, adoption and matrimony. Coos Debbie, who speaks Californian: "You're a regular wonder, Reverent...
...themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however, is moved by the event to chuck the good life and become a monk. The motivation of this holy...
...court, his lawyer described him as "the finest type of Californian." He had been president or chairman of ten companies, a director of 16, a member of the best clubs. But last week San Francisco's backslapping, bearlike Virgil David Dardi, 57, paced nervously in Manhattan's West Street jail, unable to raise $100,000 bail. He had just been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in one of the most ingeniously bizarre stock swindles in modern history-after the longest criminal trial in U.S. Federal Court history (TIME, Feb. 22). The activities of Dardi...
...United Nations. Paul S. Cowan and Frederick H. Gardner were told by the Cuban delegate that the Cuban Government would not negotiate with the United States while under military blockade. The Special to the Crimson was also featured in The University of Michigan Daily and The Daily Californian...