Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Birch Bayh (D.Ind.) said yesterday in a campaign speech at Boston University that he favors forced busing to achieve school desegregation...
...This week a poll of presidential aspirants taken by the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws will appear-with some startling results. Among nine Democratic candidates who replied, only George Wallace stood adamantly against decriminalization of pot. Jimmy Carter, Sargent Shriver, Frank Church, Morris Udall, Henry Jackson, Birch Bayh, Fred Harris and Milton Shapp all favored making possession of minor amounts a civil offense punishable only by fine-though they favored keeping a strict penalty for pushing. Another respondent, Lloyd Bentsen, favored lessening of the criminal penalties for first offenders. So far, Republican Candi dates Gerald Ford and Ronald...
BIRCH ("Tree") BAYH, c.f. rookie: Good fielder, covers a lot of ground, in fact seems to prefer everyone else's position to his own; has tried to organize a player's union which critics insist will be part of the AFL/CIO...
...young team, perhaps too young. Desperately needs a strong leader or manager. The club's inexperience has shown in some glaring ways this spring. Bayh and Harris have knocked each other out chasing the same fly ball while Bayh and Jackson seem to think balls hit in between them possess cooties. On potential double play balls in the infield, Udall often throws to third and the one time he did get it to second, Shriver, in a fit of pique, threw it back. Finally, pitcher Wallace's predilection for putting members of the opposite team on base could hurt...
Ford's program, though, does not go as far toward helping farmers as a sweeping rule change suggested by Indiana Senator-and Democratic presidential hopeful-Birch Bayh. His bill would exempt the first $200,000 of an estate from taxation entirely, though only for people who inherit family farms that were owned and controlled by the deceased for at least five years. Inheritors of small businesses would not be helped at all. Bayh charged last week that Ford's tax-deferral plan would only mean "slow death for family farms, instead of sudden death...