Word: alabama
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Another opponent of the sale who held firm despite White House pressure was Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin. He said that he found the White House lobbying gentle by comparison with that of interested corporations. A delegation of 26 businessmen with contracts in Saudi Arabia flew up from Alabama to tell him that a whole lot of jobs, including maybe his own, might depend on how he voted. Democrat David Pry or of Arkansas got a pro-AWACS call from Mobil Oil President William Tavoulareas. Seattle-based Boeing, which builds the AWACS, put pressure on Washington's Gorton. A week...
...When Alabama gets the bomb...
With some Senators Reagan tried religion. Said Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama: "We talked about the fact that the Middle East, according to the Bible, would be the place where Armageddon would start. The President interprets the Bible to mean that at Armageddon, Russia is going to become involved in it." Heflin remained opposed. With Democrat John Melcher of Montana, the Reagan approach may have been more down to earth: in exchange for a vote, the White House reportedly offered to reconsider funding an experimental coal plant in Butte. Melcher remained undecided...
Some colleges dominate a sport for so long that the names become synonymous: like UCLA and basketball, and Alabama and football. And MIT and tiddlywinks...
...Capote, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elizabeth Bowen, Alice B. Toklas, the Sitwells, and T.S. Eliot. The most comprehensive study, The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect, begins with the first meeting between Capote and Brinnin, in Yaddo during the summer of 1947. Fascinated by this small man-child from Alabama, Brinnin scrupulously details Capote's erratic life through the conception of In Cold Blood...