Word: californian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proposition's advocates never allude to race, presenting the measure as a "free property issue." The strategy is intelligent, for the sprawling tract-developments of the state's suburbias have made almost every Californian a homeowner. The emphasis on "freedom" has even confused many Negros...
...race, but won in the second-chance "repechage" heat to get into the final. Yesterday the team finished just two seconds back of the winning Danish crew. The Danes posted a time of 6:59.30; Great Britain was second in 7:00.47, and the U.S. third in 7:01.37. Californian Dick Lyon, and Ted Mittet and Ted Nash of Seattle rowed with Picard on the U.S. crew...
Oerter, who strained two ribs in practice less than a week ago, threw the discus an Olympic record 200 ft., 1.63 inches. Dave Weil, a Californian, took the bronze medal...
...could wear a hood or some disguise so they wouldn't recognize me," she said. > Dan Gurney, 33: the Grand Prix de France, averaging 108.7 m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen-Les Essarts. The Californian's victory was overshadowed, however, by the magnificent performance of Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 Grand Prix champion whose Lotus blew a piston on the pre-race practice lap. Running on only seven cylinders, Clark still leaped into the lead at the start, broke the track record four...
...many a sun-worshiping Southern Californian, the thick, eye-irritating blanket that often covers Los Angeles and has already pushed past the mountains into the San Fernando Valley is almost a way of life. The acrid murk is concocted in the area's own natural pressure cooker. A pair of the state's most abundant resources, sunshine and automobiles, cooperate...