Word: californias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last week announced the decision that he had nailed down in the conference: next month he will make speeches and talk politics in Vice President Nixon's fortress California and potentially pivotal Oregon. While still disavowing his candidacy, Rockefeller was obviously stalking the presidency a lot sooner and a lot more seriously than his friends thought he would...
...Southern California (4-0)-crunched for 309 yds. on the ground to defeat unbeaten Washington...
They were all over, blocking with leg-chopping power, tackling with burly fury. If the play was not made by End Marlin McKeever, it likely was made by his identical twin, Guard Mike McKeever. With the McKeever twins clearing the way, Southern California crunched 80 yds. in the final period to defeat hitherto-unbeaten Washington 22-15, proved itself the finest West Coast team in years...
...practically nothing to do with beer, but thousands of readers blitzed Blitz with pleas for trees, gave the company a word-of-mouth circulation far beyond the cost of the ad. They pushed California's Paul Masson brandy by poking fun at bourbon ("Kentucky is a great place for breeding horses") and vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell it, why bother?''), helped their client boost champagne and brandy sales 46% in two years...
...richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including "35? for ice cream." He has homes in California and Italy, but rarely uses them, prefers instead to run his vast Middle Eastern oil interests (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) from the cheapest two-room suites in Paris' George V and London's Ritz Hotel. He has no personal servant, and it takes a nimble bellhop...