Word: alton
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...traditional constituency. Dixon, a career politician, has received large contributions from state employees and from labor organizations; O'Neal from the Republican National Committee and Chicago businesses. O'Neal is also endorsed by several right-to-life groups and by the STOP-ERA interests, headed by Phyllis Schlafly of Alton...
...meeting--hosted last Wednesday by Richard M. Hunt, senior lecturer on Social Sciences--dealt with Anderson's "main themes in foreign policy and how to address them," Alton Frye, director of policy planning for Anderson, said last night...
...Anderson campaign will postpone all transition planning until the independent candidate is certain he'll be changing addresses, Alton Frye, Anderson's policy director, says. "We are glad they [the IOP] are helping," Frye adds, agreeing that the specifics of such outside counseling should not be made public...
...sunrise one morning two weeks ago, Captain Kenneth Redden and his nine-man crew maneuvered the tugboat Susan McBride and her 15 barges, heading north to take on coal, into a mooring along the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill. For the next three days, Redden and his men watched TV and played cards, while waiting to get the vessels through the antiquated locks that are known as the Turnstyle of the Upper Mississippi...
...foes were also active. Organized by Phyllis Schlafly of Alton, Ill., a conservative Republican and the leading opponent of the ERA, they passed out home-baked bread to legislators, symbolizing the wifely services they contend are threatened by the amendment. Schlafly warned that the ERA would lead to the drafting of women. Said she: "We do not want our daughters treated like men or like sex playmates in the armed forces." On Wednesday, ERA supporters streamed into the statehouse at 6 a.m. to bear witness to the vote. For over ten hours they waited. And waited. And waited some more...