Word: californians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Californian tests campaign themes in the East...
...Governors did not take very kindly to Brown. When the Californian made a rhetorical pitch for a balanced budget as "the central issue of our time," Vermont's flinty Republican Governor Richard Snelling snapped back a curt reminder that the Governors' group had had a committee studying that very topic over the past year, that Brown was a member of the committee but had never attended its meetings, that he had not even answered Snelling's letter seeking views on which specific federal programs the states would like to see slashed. Said Snelling: "I think the born...
Stiles's vault of 17-ft., 1-in. topped both his personal best and the old IC4A mark by four inches. The Californian captain's closest competitor dropped...
Nevada's conservative Senator Paul Laxalt obliquely noted two of Reagan's image problems as he guided the Californian on the Hill. "You're not talking about a right-wing nut with horns out of his ears," said Laxalt, "but a responsible conservative whose age may be a problem." Reagan, 67, is only six years older than Connally, but when he called on Tennessee's Howard Baker, 53, who also has presidential ambitions, the Senator's press aide could not resist joking to reporters: "The two had a father-son talk...
...term displaced homemaker was invented by another Californian, Tish Sommers, 64, who was divorced at 57 and "discovered I was part of an invisible problem, one of the women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields...