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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UTAH: Lacklustre Senator Frank E. Moss is in the same kind of trouble as his neighbor Howard Cannon of Nevada. Moss faces a strong challenge of a conservative, Administration backed Republican, Laurence J. Burton. Burton has made full use of the Agnew techniques and of Agnew himself, and in Utah this is powerful medicine...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: An Assault on the Senate From Maine to Wyoming Presidential Hopefuls And National Unknowns Face the Nixon-Agnew Onslaught | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...voted for the military appropriations bill containing ABM. She first voted for the appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but voted against it after President Nixon vetoed it, deciding finally that it was inflationary. Claiming to be a progressive, she also voted against the Hill-Burton hospital construction bill. Where Yaffe favors setting a fixed date for withdrawal from Vietnam, she opposes this, saying of the Nixon Vietnamization plan, "it was the only choice he had at the time...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Four Likely Candidates | 10/13/1970 | See Source »

That Richard Burton would have been a great Shakespearean actor had he not married Elizabeth Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A NEW AMERICAN CREDO | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...author, Burton R. Tauber, 35, took time out last spring from his Wall Street law practice-which often involved preparation of prospectuses-to do some volunteer antiwar lobbying in Washington. He felt that he got nowhere. In order to relieve his frustration, he began dictating a prospectus for "The War in Viet Nam" ("hereinafter referred to as 'the Company' "). He got about one-third of the way through before his secretary realized that it was a parody. No wonder; Tauber has reproduced both the form and the stilted legalese of a genuine prospectus, and the euphemistic circumlocutions peculiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Satirizing the War as an Investment | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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