Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Screwworms have been infecting cattle in all of Arizona, as well as in much of neighboring New Mexico, producing the most serious threat to ranchers there in five years. The worms keep the beef cattle lean, and infected portions of the animals cannot be sold. At the same time, Arizona homeowners are fighting an unusual abundance of black widow spiders, inspiring neighborly nighttime forays in which residents chase the invaders with flashlights, sticks and sprays...
...Still. Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, who is managing the legislation for the Administration, is confident that the objectionable sections can be eliminated on the House floor. Said he: "My whole strategy was simply to get out a bill...
...horse Pie to victory in England's Grand National. Now, Velvet is a high-strung middle-aged woman (Nanette Newman) who lives in sin with a blocked novelist known as John (Christopher Plummer). Tatum plays Sarah Velvet Brown, a recently orphaned niece who ar rives from Arizona to live with her aunt. Once she meets Pie's latest foal, history very slowly but surely repeats itself...
...like last year's The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (Basic Books, $15), should probably be required reading for anyone who cares about religion in America. But Greeley, a senior study director at the National Opinion Research Center and soon-to-be sociology professor at the University of Arizona, is best known for books, columns and articles that people read simply because they are readable. On practically any topic, Greeley manages to strike some readers as outrageously unfair and others as eminently fair, as left wing and right wing, as wise and wrongheaded. More often than...
...celerity of the Second Circuit is so far unique among U.S. appeals courts, it is not because other judges have not explored new ways of clearing their dockets. On the West Coast, the Ninth Circuit has experimented with efficiency controls. But its sheer geographic size-it runs from Arizona to Alaska to Guam-makes uniform procedure difficult to impose and spreads the circuit's 13 judges thin. The Fifth, which covers many Southern states, is the busiest of the circuits, handling almost 30% of all federal appeals. Fifth judges have taken even more draconian time-saving measures than...