Word: birchings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huddled around a camping heater. "We submitted a plan for a nuclear power plant here, but it was rejected by the voters," said Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. "This is an unfortunate education for our citizens that we must have a new source of energy." In Indiana, Senator Birch Bayh rushed to aid farmers by arranging an emergency shipment of grain-drying propane gas from New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and Houston's Tenneco...
...clothing workers boycott has been joined by a Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers, chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Included among the group's membership are Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.). Cesar Chavez, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Morris B. Abrams, former president of Brandeis College...
Introduced by Birch Bayh, the bill defines the Saturday Night Special as a pistol no longer than six inches with a barrel no longer than three. To get around the law, a gunmaker need only produce a slightly longer revolver. In addition, the bill does not ban the sale of handguns by individuals, which is the way most criminals get their weapons in the first place. Finally, the bill includes an amendment repealing a provision of the 1968 gun-control law requiring that records be kept of anyone who buys rim-fire .22-cal. ammunition -a device enabling police...
...primaries and caucuses, then the party would be in ruins, the nomination scarcely worth having. Perhaps naturally, Humphrey dismisses that idea: "The party is weary of temper tantrums of juveniles who, if they don't get their way, are going to bolt." But Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, himself an early presidential contender, shares a foreboding that a convention defeat for McGovern would mean a disastrous fracturing of the Democratic Party-"It'd make 1968 look like Little League ball compared to the Baltimore Orioles...
...ACADEMIC question went beyond Klein's personal qualifications. In Fall, 1970, Dean Dunlop had created a committee to investigate the status of Geophysics in the Geology Department. Francis Birch '24, the Department's only tenured geophysicist, by then had already passed the retirement age. The small committee of scientists from outside and inside the University reported that Geophysics, the fastest growing and most glamorous area of Geology, was grossly understaffed at Harvard. It noted the abundance of Harvard mineralogists and suggested boosting Geophysics at the expense of Mineralogy. So one year after Klein became an associate professor of Mineralogy, with...