Word: california
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating Carter by a shocking 70% to 20% in a head-on confrontation in California...
...thanks to either, gasoline lines in panic-stricken California dwindled dramatically last week. Waiting times averaged only 20 minutes, and at a few stations there were no lines at all. As the weekend began, supplies were still tight and inconveniences abounded in much of the nation. Motorists stopping at gas stations along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway were restricted to $3 maximum purchases, which put little more than three gallons in their tanks and would move gas guzzlers a mere 30 miles. But in resort areas from Cape Cod to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, enough gas appeared...
...sale to individual drivers. Many gas stations that angered drivers by shortening hours or closing on Sundays earlier in the month saved enough fuel to have some left to dispense on the Memorial Day weekend. There were indications that motorists were curtailing driving a bit too, and in California preholiday freeway traffic, after a sharp drop, was still about 5% below normal. Across the nation, airline, train and bus travel boomed...
Moffett himself concedes it would be hard to enforce and, in fact, is difficult to draft in proper language. But he adds: "It's a choice between this and three-mile lines at the gas stations and shootouts at the pumps, California style...
Joining Ottinger were Edward P. Beard of Rhode Island, Fortney H. Stark of California, John Conyers of Michigan, the only member of the quintet not to back Kennedy, and Richard Nolan, a onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...