Word: californias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever before are now in college, and more than 60% of male black students now finish high school. Around the land, Black Panthers have started ghetto clinics and breakfast and lunch programs for schoolchildren-not without criticism from more moderate blacks. Professor Barbara Solomon of the University of Southern California denounces the Panthers' Los Angeles Freedom School as "brainwashing children to hate the white...
...latter can be troublesome, particularly when the President is Richard Nixon, for whom the White House is not entirely a home. He is, by his own testimony, a "saltwater man," and in a relatively short span of time has picked up two seaside abodes in Florida, another in California, as well as retaining his leasehold on the old family manse in Whittier, Calif. While none of the four dwellings is perhaps fit for a king, the three recent acquisitions are certainly suitable to the style of a First Family, with all that that entails. How in the world does Nixon...
...profit. Just to whom the President will sell is not known. It could be a "compatible" buyer-perhaps Nixon's wealthy, longtime friend "Bebe" Rebozo-or it could be the Nixon Foundation, which might build a presidential library and museum on the land, though the President's California home town of Whittier would like that honor...
Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness of Judah, so the Bible says, and James Pike was determined to go there too-"to meditate," as his wife wistfully recalled later, "and get a firsthand feeling of it." For the onetime Episcopal Bishop of California, it was just one more unusual adventure in a remarkably strange career (see following story). As always, he was anxious to get on with it. No matter that it was 1 o'clock on a hot Monday afternoon, hardly the time to set out into the blistering, arid desert. James Pike...
Throughout the week's meetings, gaily dressed youths stood in the arena's bleachers, holding hands and taking turns quietly reading the names of all the Viet Nam war dead. At one point, the Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, introduced a procession of priests and youths bearing antiwar signs and wooden crosses aglow with psychedelic flowers and asked for "spiritual sanctuary" for two AWOL soldiers who had flown from Hawaii to the convention. Clearly the U.S. Episcopal Church, which for years has been a leader in the fight for change, was now ready...