Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent only $290,418 between July 1, 1973, and early January-all in public funds. Special Counsel James D. St. Clair ($42,500) heads a task force often attorneys working exclusively on Watergate. Named to the staff last week was John J. Chester ($40,000), a trial lawyer from Columbus, Ohio...
...steel and other raw materials, and the impact of the strike is already being felt. Major citrus and produce growers are unable to ship their crops North. As a result, the price of oranges, strawberries and other perishables will rise. Because of material shortages, Armco Steel Corp. closed its Columbus plant indefinitely, throwing 565 people out of work. Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and U.S. Steel may close their plants in Youngstown. Strike leaders predict that unless the Government offers them a more satisfactory deal, food shortages will begin to crop up early this week in major cities...
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...scholars called it "the most exciting cartographic discovery of the century." The map, acquired by Yale's library, was the first to show the Western Hemisphere as it was discovered by the Vikings centuries before Columbus. It became known as the "Vinland map" because it bore a Latin inscription declaring that Bjarni and Leif Ericson had "discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines, the which island they named Vinland...
...years ago, this place was a pigsty. Now the patients are eating family style." So saying, Ohio's Governor John J. Gilligan went back to his job: helping Cerebral Palsy Victim Jimmy Long with his exercises at the Orient State Institute near Columbus. Since he took office in 1971, Gilligan has made a special effort to improve the conditions of the hospitals in which the state's 23,000 mentally ill and retarded live. From funds raised by Gilligan's introduction of a state income tax in 1971, $900,000 has gone into a "humanization" program, ensuring...