Word: cumberlandism
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...Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail and gaunt...
Heavy rains in the Appalachian hill country of eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia sent some rivers rolling to their highest flood levels in a century. As the Big Sandy, Cumberland and Kentucky gushed over their banks in Kentucky (a national guardsman described "a big whooshing noise"), five people were swept to their deaths and 7,600 families fled. When they returned, their homes were gone, or wrecked by water...
...chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange, the prices of some beverage-company shares temporarily took a dive. At many stores, weight-conscious buyers stripped the shelves bare of their favorite low-calorie products...
...usually dour West Virginia Democrat tore off his dinner jacket, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a fiddle and began sawing away. Some 1,300 hand-clapping, foot-stomping guests at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress followed him through rousing choruses of Rye Whiskey, Cumberland Gap and the new Administration's anthem, Amazing Grace. "My word," cried one amused Senator, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings, "they're going to have us all born again...
From Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Secretary of Commerce Elliot A. Richardson '43--who weigh in at $66,000 per year--to Olga C. Cumberland, the Private Secretary to the Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs ($15,000 to $20,000 range of level G.S. 10) the Plum Book has them...