Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sample Communism's environmental efforts, TIME Correspondent Burton Pines recently visited Poland's most polluted region: Upper Silesia, a mineral-rich and heavily industrialized area near the Czech border. In 1965, the provincial government decided that unless it strengthened its 15-year-old environmental control program, Upper Silesia was headed for ecological ruin. As a result of ensuing reforms, one environmentalist told Pines, "I think we started fighting pollution in time...
Swathed in sober respectability, Actor Richard Burton celebrated his 45th birthday with presents from Queen Elizabeth (the order of Commander of the British Empire) and Wife Elizabeth (a Rolls-Royce saloon). He also ruminated on retirement: "When I really want to slope off and simply be garrulous in my old age, I shall go back to the South Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice...
...often opposing batteries of TV spots merely cancel each other-or backfire. In the Utah senatorial contest, Republican Representative Laurence Burton posed sitting on a horse, his shirt open. The candidate looked so uncomfortable that Utah's cowboys and city folk laughed him off the screen and out of the race...
...level, Poles enjoy the right of criticism, which they exercise with a relish, but they also realize that in politics boundaries do exist and that by Western standards they are rigidly confining. In spite of these limitations, a kind of controlled effervescence characterizes much of Poland. Reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, who spent about six weeks touring the country...
...record as an opponent of cigarette advertising. Utah is a Mormon state and the Mormon church forbids cigarettes. A third factor in Moss's favor is the third party candidacy of Clyde Freeman. If Freeman can win five per cent of the vote or more, it should cut Burton's vote enough to hand the election to Moss. If Freeman run poorly, the race is a tossup...