Word: californians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also this week the Californian steps up the tempo of his unannounced campaign with speeches to New York Conservative Party members in Manhattan, Republicans in Long Island's Suffolk County, the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia and the Yale Political Union in New Haven. After similar swings through Minnesota and New Mexico in the coming weeks, associates say, he will formally announce his candidacy in late November at a splashy Washington press conference, followed by quick visits to major cities and a publicity blitz...
...were all young and crazy." Bustling with music and the fever of young musicians, bands swapping songs and members, new jobs and old girls, Asbury Park sounds, if only in memory, like Liverpool before it brought forth the Beatles. Springsteen lived in a surfboard factory run by a displaced Californian named Carl Vergil ("Tinker") West III, who became, for a time, his manager...
...dean's office tries to grant as many requests to people as possible, yet at the same time they are careful not to overload an entry-way with too many similar types, such as prep school people or pre-meds. "Many people ask 'Give me a Californian,''' Young says, "but the dean's office won't sacrifice an entry's geographical variety unless it is unavoidable...
Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro, who along with F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt helped compile the research for the project, approached her assignment with a quake-wise Californian's cool. Born on a cattle ranch north of Oakland, she knew well the tale of how her greatgrandparents' chimney toppled into the kitchen during the 1906 San Francisco disaster. Like many Californians, she has often felt the earth move. The last time was in June. While Castro sat reading a Virginia Woolf novel on a mountain in the Coast Range, the earth began to "boogie and shake." Suddenly she realized that...
...overlooking the ocean. He rummages through his pre-presidential papers, tape-records observations and reminiscences, fills yellow legal pads with notes and narrative. He is often joined by Franklin Gannon, a former White House speechwriter and a Rhodes scholar, who helps organize the research and write the book. One Californian with San Clemente ties reports that 100,000 words have been written, but they take Nixon only up to 1946. Rather than start with Watergate or his presidency, Nixon intends "to give us Whittier and Mom and Dad all over again," says this source. Nixon has a strong incentive...