Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month in the Senate, the chairman of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Gale McGee (D., Wyo.), bluntly condemned resistance to increased "subsidies...
Mireille R. Gale Berkeley, Calif...
...Chicagoans in the Administration have numerous alumni allies in Congress: Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Gale McGee of Wyoming, Charles Percy of Illinois and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut; Representatives Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Mink of Hawaii; and House Parliamentarian William Brown...
Government officials with a Chicago connection range broadly from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Says Gale McGee: "The only school tie that carries over is in conversation at cocktail parties. There's no real affinity." Adds Marcus Raskin, a Chicago alumnus who directs the Institute for Policy Studies, an ultraliberal think tank: "The people from the university literally don't know each other here. Chicago's position was always as an outsider from among the ruling elite of American schools. The people there are highly individualistic, even eccentric, and they see themselves...
...place. " So wrote the English explorer Robert Falcon Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make it a veritable storehouse of protein...