Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others, especially young couples who can't buy a place of their own, cannot do that." That kind of pitch, partly true and partly flimflam, has made Jarvis a national folk hero to millions of beleaguered taxpayers...
...failed to get property taxes rolled back. Suddenly, in the past year, soaring property taxes, ever-rising state and federal taxes and the prospect of double-digit inflation combined to wed Jarvis' obsession to the public's anger. The old gadfly has become a kind of California folk hero, an unlikely St. George to voters who hope that he can deliver them from the tax dragon...
Most sheep chicers are recent escapees from the suburbs, who get their folk wisdom from Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal. But their money and enthusiasm, along with a certain craving for hand-spun yarn and naturally colored fleece, lend impetus to the recent renaissance in New Hampshire sheep raising...
...furor has turned Howard Jarvis, 75, into a statewide folk hero to millions of Californians, a demagogic devil to others. A retired millionaire manufacturer, Jarvis has been railing against high taxes for 15 years. Jarvis, whose face looks a bit like a California mudslide, has been demolishing debating opponents with his oddly compelling blend of verbosity, profanity and humbug. He has enlisted U.C.L.A. Economist Neil Jacoby to polish his simplistic arguments about the stultifying impact of the rising property tax. Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman, now teaching at Stanford, made TV commercials free of charge to back 13. Claims Friedman...
MARRIED. Michelle Phillips, 33, lissome blonde Hollywood actress (Valentino) who was a singer with the 1960s' Mamas and Papas folk-rock group; and Robert Stephen Birch, 30, a broadcasting executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills...