Word: whittier
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped found a men's social club called the Orthogonians-"a no-necked and merry crew," Classmate Lois Elliott Wilams remembers. Their motto was "4 B's -beans, brains, brawn and bowels...
Nixon took dancing lessons to please his steady college date, Ola Florence: one night he appeared at her house, announced that he could dance and immediately proved it. Says Ola Florence: "He was smart and sort of set apart. I think he was unsure of himself, deep down." Another Whittier girl remembers: "He didn't know how to be personable or sexy with girls, He didn't seem to have a sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night...
...individual, schooled to success and selfdiscipline, taking his chances in an impartial marketplace of goods and ideas. Wills sees Nixon as both caricature and culmination of the traditional theory that free competition will reward virtue and produce excellence. He is "Plastic Man," a dogged survivor of political enterprise, Whittier College's second-string lineman bathed in a Calvinist sweat of guilt and zeal, the political reincarnation of Uriah Keep...
...reportage of Nixon Agonistes is often more interesting than its ideology. Much of the territory has been trod before, but with his stylistic gift-a broad sense of satire wedded to an acute political intelligence-Wills makes even his recapitulations entertaining. Wills goes spelunking into Nixon's Whittier prehistory and there finds Frank Nixon, his father, "gloomy and argumentative, black Irishman moving in cloud, with frequent lightnings out of it." His late mother, Wills reports, displayed a "colored photo-portrait of Richard, which was, when one threw the switch, lit electrically from behind like a hamburger king...
...Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard, deputies found the body of Ruben Salazar, 42, a militant Mexican-American journalist well known in the Chicano community. Salazar, for years a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Chicano-oriented television station KMEX earlier this year and continued writing a weekly Times column that often bitterly attacked racism among white Angelenos. Many of Los Angeles' Mexican Americans looked to Salazar as their spokesman and interpreter to the Anglos. There is a notable new militancy among Chicanos, inspired by the successes of Cesar Chavez in organizing California's farm workers...