Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been presented with two more starkly contrasting candidates. Incumbent John Gilligan, 53, is a former college instructor who pushed through the state's first income tax and upgraded public services, especially the underfinanced school system. James Rhodes, 65, who spent eight years in the statehouse at Columbus before Gilligan succeeded him, kept taxes at the lowest level, in comparison to income, of any state in the nation and maintained social services at approximately the same level...
...case went up the line of military justice, the reviewing authorities answered yes to those questions again and again, though the original life sentence was reduced to ten years. Galley's lawyers then turned to civilian courts. Last week in Columbus, Ga., Federal District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott ruled that Calley had indeed been convicted unjustly...
...lines of Blue Shield. Already, some 2,500 organizations round the country are experimenting with group plans. Students at the University of Massachusetts, for example, pay an annual fee and are now eligible for legal help in handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down a $25 annual premium...
...solution could be a move to Bloom Township, Ohio, a small farming community (pop. 3,500), set in rolling corn country twelve miles outside Columbus...
Ford ended the week by flying to Columbus to deliver the commencement address at Ohio State University, his second public appearance as President outside Washington. As some 10,000 graduating students and guests applauded, Ford described American youth as "our greatest untapped source of energy" in the struggle against inflation and other national problems. In a comparison of sorts, he also spoke admiringly of the Communist Chinese. "The majority of Chinese on the mainland are young people, highly motivated and extremely well disciplined," Ford said. "As fellow human beings, we celebrate the rising capacities of the Chinese nation, a people...