Word: electical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this week, Chinese-style wall posters denouncing "Kathy Duey and the Gang of 4" appeared around the campus, showing Nixon as a puppeteer with Duey and four board members dangling from the strings. The poster said "Elect Ken Lucero Republican Club President...
Thirty-six hours after the sentences were commuted, U.S. Attorney Harold D. Hardin warned Governor-elect Lamar Alexander that Blanton was about to release additional convicts, reportedly including Eddie ("Dusty") Denton, 25, a convicted murderer serving 60 years, for whom an $85,000 down payment had alledgedly been made on a commutation that was supposed to cost...
Befitting their grownup role in society, children were dressed like miniature adults. And since all good Calvinists looked upon wealth as a sign that they were among God's elect, those clothes were frequently expensive, ornate garments in the latest European styles. In Jeremiah Theus' 1753 formal portrait of Ralph Izard, for instance, the young man wears an immaculate gentleman's outfit, complete with ruffled shirt and silver-trimmed tricorn hat. All of twelve years old, he is painted as lord of the manor, stiffly gesturing toward his property...
Office workers, who sit at desks in pleasant buildings, may stay on in larger numbers, but not all that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than...
...elect Tsongas, a member of the President's own party, termed the timing of the recognition of China as "atrocious" on Boston radio state WEEI's show "Bay State Forum." Tsongas said that Carter, alienated a group of senators led by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) by breaking a mutual recognition agreement with Taiwan...