Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climactic confrontation began when the Democratic House attached to its version of the continuing resolution a $5.4 billion "jobs program." The bill was a pork barrel brimming with public works projects: clearing Cow Castle Creek in South Carolina, rehabilitating a raceway in California, funding a tree-planting program, and repairing military housing facilities. Reagan, who vetoed a continuing resolution a year ago because he wanted more spending on defense and less on domestic programs, was infuriated. "I don't give a damn if it's Friday night and the Government is brought to a standstill," he told Republican...
...Katherine Anne" was born Gallic Russell Porter in a two-room log cabin in Indian Creek, Texas. Before she was two, her mother died. She was brought up in a desolate little town of 500 souls, a whistle-stop for cattle trains between San Antonio and Austin, by her ferocious, puritanical grandmother Catherine...
...also a game McEvoy needed, as he said, to "get one under my belt." In the Crimson's next game, Saturday night at RPI, Harvard's other freshman goaltender, Grant Blair of Stoney Creek, Ontario, will get his turn to show his stuff...
DIED. Clinton T. Duffy, 84, warden of California's San Quentin prison from 1940 to 1952, whose humanitarian reforms inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three...
...manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image...