Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guile, diplomacy and strong-arm discipline. His elaborate funeral marked the end of an era, for he was the last of the graybeard Godfathers who dominated the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s. The others are either in their graves or living in expensive Sunbelt retirement homes in Florida, Arizona and Palm Springs, Calif...
...areas totaling almost 33.6 million hectares (84 million acres). For three years, legislation languished. But now, with these Alaskan lands scheduled to be turned over to the Bureau of Land Management and opened for "multiple use," meaning development, in 1978, Congress is beginning to move. Representative Morris Udall of Arizona has offered legislation that would add more than 12 million hectares (30 million acres) to the original Interior Department package. His bill, H.R. 39, would more than double the size of the country's national park system, and preserve for posterity some of the world's most extensive...
...Chase takes puckish potshots at TV sports coverage, presidential press conferences, variety and game shows and, of course, advertising. At times, the old Saturday Night wit is in top form. In a takeoff on Let's Make a Deal, one hyperexcited contestant trades a husband, children and an Arizona home for what's behind the door. "Oh oh, Edna, you've been stung!" says Host Chevy cheerily. "It's a spinal...
...years are all-important, and the pivotal personality in Nixon vs. Nixon is his mother. Hannah, whom the President described as a saint in his tearful televised farewell to the White House. As is well known, she had to leave her family to nurse her dying son Harold in Arizona, and spent long hours tending the family's California grocery store. It is fair enough to speculate about how hard that might have been on Richard...
...century, juvenile courts were considered to be benevolent centers concerned with the welfare of children, who thus did not require formal legal safeguards. But practice fell short of the ideal. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed juvenile justice procedures through In re Gault, a case involving an Arizona boy abruptly jailed after making an obscene telephone call. The court decided that Gault and other young defendants should have many due-process rights available previously only to adults. Among them were the rights to consult an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses...