Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bent on a spiritual cleansing, claimed to recall a meeting back in 1948 near the town of Alice, Texas, as the votes were being counted. Lyndon was there pleading for 200 more votes, according to Salas, and George Parr ordered them faked and stuffed into ballot box No. 13. Johnson triumphed in that primary election over former Governor Coke Stevenson. The Salas narrative suggested strongly that the protests were smothered because the fix was put in all the way up through Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and President Harry Truman...
...bend to U.S. pressures for compromise. The Israeli leader seemed to taunt Carter deliberately last week when, only a few hours after he returned home from an all-smiles meeting with the President in Washington, he approved the legalizing of three Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank (see box). Carter promptly endorsed a statement by Vance that the Israeli action created "an obstacle to the peacemaking process...
...balmy evening last week, a young man was flying his box kite in a posh residential neighborhood to the northeast of Santa Barbara, Calif. Suddenly the kite swooped into power lines, causing a short circuit that showered sparks and ignited the drought-dried chaparral below. Whipped by winds of up to 40 m.p.h., the blaze roared down the hills on a one-mile front toward the coastal city (pop. 73,000). Said one awed witness: "Homes went up with a huge whoosh and puff. Palm trees exploded like Roman candles...
...been keeping their wallets buttoned up much longer than they have at this stage of earlier postwar business cycles. Indeed, some economists are suggesting that reduced capital spending could become a more or less permanent feature of the U.S. economy as the impact of higher energy costs spreads (see box...
What then of public financing for abortions? Should citizens have to pay for an operation they find morally repugnant? A few years ago, stores sold anihilistically spirited black box: when one pushed a button on its side, the box whirred and opened, a hand appeared from under a lid-and turned the box off. The Supreme Court's latest decision- and Carter's attitude toward it-has something of the same self-canceling effect. The court made abortion legal; now it has rescinded an important advantage of that legality by making it hard for the poor to obtain...