Word: abner
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DIED. Al Capp, 70, sardonic cartoonist who gained fame and wealth with his Li'l Abner comic strip; in Cambridge, Mass, (see PRESS...
...money goes to fund candidates who are pro-business. But the trend in corporate giving seems to be one of buying access to legislators. In 1978, corporate PACs gave more than twice as much money to Democratic incumbents as to Republican challengers. Alarmingly large amounts, according to Congressman Abner Mikva (D-Ill.), go to powerful committee chairmen who are in safe districts and don't really need the money. Senator Russell Long (D-La.) has been quoted as saying that "The distinction between a large campaign contribution and a bribe is almost a hairline's difference...
Baseball, unlike most modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
...show, not a boat show. It's a military hardware show where they'll be selling everything from thumbscrews to missiles." At the Hyatt stockholders' meeting last week, Benton delivered an impassioned eight-minute lecture on corporate morality. Senator Charles Percy and Representative Abner J. Mikva have asked the sponsors to cancel the exhibition...
...busi ness this session and that it should be as lean as possible. Even liberals acknowledge that the nation's problems do not appear to yield to money and to Government intervention. "We haven't had the pruning of the programs that don't work," admits Abner Mikva, a leading liberal Democrat who was re-elected from Chicago's North Shore suburbs by a scant 1,000 votes. "Because of that, all of Government is carrying a burden of presumed incompetence and inefficiency...