Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly two years, Watergate had divided and confused the American people. Now there was a unifying mood: relief that the doubt and turmoil were over. But the actual announcement came as an emotional anticlimax to many people. As one anti-Nixon man in Wilmington, Del., put it, "This just doesn't feel as good as I thought it would." On the other hand, many Nixon supporters quickly became resigned to abdication. "It's sort of like an inoculation," declared New Hampshire Forester Robert Breck, who had voted for tickets carrying Nixon's name in eleven elections...
...ruling is probably Louisville, where a federal judge last week ordered city and suburban school districts merged to facilitate desegregation; an appeals court may well use the Detroit case as grounds to overturn the order. Cross-district busing cases are also being pressed in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Wilmington, Del., Hartford, Conn., and a number of other cities. School officials in those communities will now have to look inside their districts for solutions to racial imbalance...
...estate baron; of lung cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Webb was a promising semipro baseball pitcher before illness made him give up the game at 27. In 1929 he started his own construction company with one cement mixer and a few dozen wheelbarrows and tools, ultimately parlayed it into the Del E. Webb Corp., a $100 million empire of hotels, offices, planned retirement communities and other developments. With the late Dan Topping, Webb owned the New York Yankees during their postwar years of glory...
Alfred B. Del Bello, 39, is the first Democrat ever elected county executive of affluent Westchester, N.Y. (pop. 900,000). A two-term city councilman in Yonkers, N.Y., he ran as the underdog for mayor in 1969 and won, the first Democrat to do so in 32 years. In two terms, the Fordham-educated lawyer cleaned up corruption, balanced the budget and restored Yonkers, his birthplace, to a semblance of civic health. Since his upset victory last year, which made him the youngest county executive in Westchester's history, he has laid plans for recycling garbage into energy...
...cautious liberalization of the laws. The inquiry was begun in late 1972 by U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Arthur Sorosky, who noticed that those of his patients who had been adopted tended to have special identity problems. Enlisting the help of Social Workers Reuben Pannor and Annette Baran of the Vista Del Mar Child-Care Service, Sorosky solicited opinions on the open-records question from adoptees, as well as from natural and adoptive parents. The trio received 600 letters, many of which they followed up with interviews. The response of the natural parents was often passionate. Wrote one mother: "No cross given...