Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency. Earlier in the week, he had proclaimed Snowmobile Week in the state, but the races at Traverse City had to be canceled: 20-ft. drifts covered the track. Other forms of transportation in the region did no better. Dozens of airports were closed, including those in Indianapolis, Columbus and Detroit. Chicago's O'Hare Airport, the world's busiest, shut down for only the fourth time in its 23-year history...
...improve on the dismal G.O.P. performance, Brock hired a firm of black political consultants in Columbus, Ga., promoted the appointment of blacks to organize Southern states for the G.O.P. and visited Georgia and Mississippi to see what else could be done. Last November two top officials of the Mississippi Republican Party created a stir by making an unprecedented appearance at the state's convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "We're not likely to attract a large number of blacks," concedes Kansas Senator (and former G.O.P. chairman) Robert Dole, "but we can attract...
...rare bureaucrats who is trying to put his agency at least partly out of business. Under him, the CAB has given the airlines more freedom to lower fares and expand charter flights. Kahn is impatient with bureaucratic obstructionism. He learned, for example, that a petition by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for more airline service had not been answered for eight years by the CAB. An aide recalls Kahn's mastication of the responsible bureaucrats: "He bit them so hard you can still tell who they are and how they were bitten. They're the ones not sitting down...
...origin of the oceans some 4 billion years ago, it moves on through the formation and movement of the continents and proceeds to a discussion of the composition of the seas today. In the course of the trip it discusses, briefly but lucidly, explorations from the time of Columbus and Magellan to the new undersea explorations of the Piccards. It looks closely at the myriad life forms that inhabit the oceans, and the resources-oil, minerals, precious metals-that lie beneath the surface...
...became an obsession. This fall CBS News Producer Joe Wershba steered him to Stapleton, who shared Flynt's concern about child abuse. Flynt spent a weekend with Stapleton and her veterinarian husband at their Fayetteville, N.C., home, and the Stapletons visited the Flynts' 23-room mansion in Columbus, where they discussed religion and sexual repression, Stapleton recalls. Flynt abruptly phoned her from San Antonio around midnight Nov. 17. "He was talking 90 miles an hour," she says. "Through the jumbled conversation I knew something real had happened...