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...boys have always been assembled into singing groups. Government bureaucrats looked ridiculous in that instance because of their failure to admit a common-sense truth: some exclusivity-by race, sex, color and creed as well as by calling-arises not for bad but for good reasons. White Democratic Congressman Fortney H. Stark of California suffered a similar failure a couple of years ago when he applied for membership in the congressional Black Caucus. Questions: Does the congressional...
However amusing, such extremism is not a healthy way to combat pollution. Neither is the kind of choler displayed by Fortney Stark Jr., a California banker who delivered one of the country's angriest speeches. "Throw a few chairmen of the board in jail," Stark declared, "and you'll see pollution disappear quite rapidly. You'd also probably see some pretty drastic prison reforms." Earth Week, though, should be a time of regeneration, not recrimination. This year, on the whole, it seemed headed in the right direction...
John H. Dodge, East Lansing, Mich., George Dunton, Jr., Santa Ana, Calif., Robert E. Elsas, Columbus, Ohio, Leonard A. Erickson, Grand Forks, N. Dak., Leonard C. Farr, Marshfield, Ore., Douglas LaV. Fortney, Bowden, N. Dak., Gordon L. Furth, Berkeley, Calif., Robert F. Germer, Olney, III., William W. Haynes, Berkeley, Calif...
...Chicago, Helen Fortney, 20, trim, muscular, 138-lb. girl from Lake Geneva, Wis., advertised for a job as bodyguard, claiming that she is a better pistol and rifle shot, wrestler and boxer than most men. She got several score offers of marriage, two for waitress jobs, two interviews with detective agencies and one offer of a bodyguard job which she called ''a little suspicious...
...Recall Council, made up of taxpayers, real estate dealers, small merchants and a good slice of the local press, directed the fight on Mayor Hoan. Put up to oppose him in the recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...