Word: feb
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...degree in geography at George Washington University. As for Rosalynn, she has enough First Lady duties to rate her own East Wing office. She meets there each morning with her 18-member staff, including Press Secretary Mary Finch Hoyt, to discuss plans for upcoming state dinners-on Feb. 14 for Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and on Feb. 21 for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She wants to help promote the flagging Equal Rights Amendment and plans to get involved in mental-health activities...
This is the Kumbh Mela (Jar Festival), by far the largest religious pilgrimage in the world. At the high point of the observance last week, an estimated 10 million people dipped themselves in the waters. By the time the five sacred weeks end on Feb. 5, about 50 million pilgrims will have participated, most of them humble villagers who travel from all regions of India...
...year-old girl, was scheduled to die in the Texas electric chair last Wednesday. But hours after Gilmore's execution, the Supreme Court delayed Jurek's death until it could consider his appeal. Next up could be Calvin Woodkins, another Texas murderer, scheduled to die on Feb. 10. But that date too is likely to be postponed. The Supreme Court, however, has upheld the death-penalty laws in Texas, Georgia and Florida, and it is in one of those states that condemned man No. 2 is likely to die. Opponents of capital punishment have argued that the death...
Ford's temperate approach put to rest the fears of Carter people that they might have to make drastic changes in a perilously brief time-by Feb. 15, they must have their own fiscal 1978 budget prepared to submit to Congress. Without having to worry about the budget totals, they are free to concentrate on specific areas where they can take issue with Ford. He requests a sizable $12.9 billion jump in defense spending, to $123.1 billion. Carter can trim $5 billion or more from the total-as he pledged in the campaign -without upsetting many Pentagon plans...
...contest will end Feb. 8, when the union's members cast ballots in 5,360 U.S.W. local halls in the U.S. and Canada. Officials of the U.S. Department of Labor will tally the vote in Pittsburgh and announce the winner. That falls short of Sadlowski's demand that the Government run the election outright to guard against fraud. His fear of chicanery is understandable; in 1973 he ran for the job of U.S.W. district director in Chicago and Gary and was originally declared the loser. But under Government supervision the election was rerun and Sadlowski...