Word: alton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular speaker at anti-ERA rallies, she acts very much like a liberated woman. By her own reckoning, she is away from her family at least once a week. She employs a full-time housekeeper to care for her six-bedroom Tudor-style mansion overlooking the Mississippi River in Alton...
...three G.O.P. conventions and served as president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women. When she ran for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women in 1967, she lost in a bitter campaign against a more moderate candidate. Schlafly's own next-door neighbor in Alton, a housewife and active Republican, accused her at the time of being "an exponent of an extreme right-wing philosophy-a propagandist who deals in emotion and personalities where it is not necessary to establish facts or prove charges...
Late into the night, veteran Associated Press Science Writer Rennie Taylor discussed the question with his friend, A.P. Science Editor Alton Blakeslee. To whom-or what-should Taylor bequeath his estate? That night the American Tentative Society was conceived. Its goal: to encourage independent scientific thinking. Why "tentative"? Because, as Society President Blakeslee explains, "all ideas should be regarded as tentative. Otherwise we become prisoners of yesterday, stuck with dogmas...
First Team: Forwards--Kevin McDonald (Penn), Frank Sowinski (Princeton), and Sterling Edmonds (Dartmouth); Guards--Bill Omeltchenko (Princeton), Alton Byrd (Columbia), and Ricky Free (Columbia...
...following year Penders made his real breakthrough, when he corralled Juan Mitchell, Ricky Free and Alton Byrd, who form the nucleus of the present squad. Byrd is the linchpin of Columbia's attack: despite missing eight games this year, he managed to set Columbia's all-time career assist record...