Word: albright
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Horace Marden Albright was only 26 during that August in 1916 when the National Park Service was created. A wily Californian, bursting with energy, he was possessed by a vision of how to preserve the nation's grandeur...
...boss, Stephen Mather of the Department of Interior, the other midwife of that legislation, was off in the Sierra wilderness. Albright was so convinced that the legislation signaled the beginning of something great that he was determined to seize the moment. In those wonderful days, one young man with heart could move mountains--or at least help preserve them. He persuaded his congressional staff friends to speed up the process of getting the Parks Act printed on parchment after it had been passed by Congress, approved by the requisite leaders and forwarded to President Woodrow Wilson as quickly as possible...
...Capitol Hill, the enrolling clerk was balking. The President signed legislation only on certain days, the clerk told Albright, and there was no < call for this bill to be rushed. At that instant the clerk's telephone rang. Albright eavesdropped. Wilson wanted the Army appropriations legislation brought down. "Be a good fellow and stick the Parks Act in the same envelope," pleaded Albright. The clerk weakened and tucked it in the envelope destined to be carried to the White House in minutes...
Neon has also been employed on Broadway (in Chicago, Sophisticated Ladies) to evoke bygone eras and in films to fulfill the future. In the age of laser beams and computer-generated graphics, Neon Artist Larry Albright simulated intergalactic weaponry and UFOs for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...land of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright, the silver-medal performance by Linda Fratianne at Lake Placid four years ago was considered a slip-up (the gold went to East German Anett Potzsch). But it is not standard for U.S. women to be fighting among themselves the way they are now; so evenly, that is. Sumners beat Zayak in the 1982 nationals, only to have Zayak rebound a few weeks later at the Worlds, and a sequined hair-pull has been in progress ever since...