Word: babbittism
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...mess by Oct. 19. But the decontamination process was slow, and much time was spent in bickering with state officials over the amount of tritium lost. The company asked for a 13-month extension. A delay was permissible, but the danger uncertain. What to do? For Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt, 41, the answer was obvious and unprecedented: declare a state of emergency and call in the National Guard...
Dinosaur Annex--works of Babbitt, Grainger, Lister, Savage, Wheeler, Johson, and Schoenberg; Institute of Contemporary...
...consensus about the evils of the Vietnam War. In the fall of 1968, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, appeared before the Faculty at Pusey's request to discuss the lessons Harvard should draw from the bust and riots at Columbia that previous spring. But as Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, recalls, "We hadn't learned much from what we heard from...
...alcoholic author, a chronicler of middle-class American life in books like Main Street and Babbitt. She was a foreign correspondent. They married in 1928, Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, and soon found that their temperaments didn't mix. Now the story of their stormy relationship will be told in Strangers, opening March 4 on Broadway. "Thompson was a great, great force in American life and, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, the most successful woman in the U.S.," says Lois Nettleton, who will play the challenging role...
...charges of using state police guards as servants, pressuring state officials to give building contracts to political cronies, and befriending and accepting campaign contributions from reputed mobsters and the millionaire liquor dealer suspected ot engineering Bolles's murder. In contrast, the state's new governor, 40-year-old Bruce Babbitt, is by almost all accounts serious about putting a stop to Arizona crime, and the recent prosecution of the state's two most notorious land fraud artists, Ned Warren, Sr. and Howard Woodall, has demonstrated Arizona's concern about its national reputation as a haven for every con artist...