Word: arizona
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...very inviting. As late as the 1950s, many astronomers still thought that conditions on cloud-shrouded Venus might favor life, but by now they know otherwise. Rotating once every 243 days in a direction opposite to that of the other planets, Venus has a surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs and red-hot pools of molten metals. The planet's atmosphere is no less forbidding-mostly carbon dioxide plus thick yellow clouds that may be a poisonous brew of such substances as hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride...
...aides can handle most of the essential responses and does not insist on answers to all of them. Amazingly, nearly 90% of the members of Congress have cooperated with the young investigators. The holdouts include New York's Senator James Buckley, Michigan's Senator Robert Griffin, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater Sr. and his son California's Representative Barry Jr., and Colorado's Representative Wayne Aspinall...
Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona observed on the Senate floor that the Guild action "does not surprise me one bit," and reminded his listeners that "many times I have referred to the liberal leaning of some sections of the American press corps." Republican Campaign Director Clark MacGregor thought the Guild "illadvised in openly abandoning the time-honored objective of the American press to confine partisanship to editorial pages...
JOHN J. RHODES. The first Republican ever to be elected Representative from Arizona, Rhodes, 55, is the chairman of the Platform Committee. He has predicted that while the platform will be as representative as possible of all streams in the party, the convention will probably become involved in some disputes over fiscal policy and various welfare proposals...
...Nixon stamp will be all over this convention. The platform will be a Nixon document outlining what the White House sees as the key issues of the fall campaign: the danger of excessive defense cuts will be one of its most visible planks. Congressman John J. Rhodes of Arizona, the chairman of the Platform Committee, has announced three days of hearings for mid-August; his group has also sent out 60,000 questionnaires to people all across the country, Democrats and Republicans alike, to gather views on such controversial subjects as amnesty, Viet Nam, marijuana, crime and health insurance...