Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important question about the President's message," says Senator Gaylord Nelson, "is whether the Administration will in fact support its rhetoric with concrete action." In this election year, the answer clearly lies with the voters. Environmental groups are planning to make Congressmen's records on ecological issues available to the public right up to Election Day. Unlike 1971, this might actually be a year of accomplishment-if the public is willing to pay for the great cleanup...
Such vast expenditures of energy and resources are contributing to the growth of an entirely new science called exobiology (from the Greek exo, or out of), which has come into being in the past decade and is dedicated specifically to the study of extraterrestrial life. Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson has sardonically called exobiology a science "that has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists." But in laboratories, at giant radio observatories and at esoteric symposiums, some of the world's keenest intellects have begun to focus on the new discipline...
...paragraph withdrawal statement beneath television lights. Half a dozen of Bayh's Democratic Senate colleagues were on hand -Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Iowa's Harold Hughes, Minnesota's Walter Mondale, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Mississippi's John Stennis and Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. None of Bayh's erstwhile rivals for the presidential nomination appeared, however...
...things to continue going the way they have for them." Not necessarily. The Dodgers of late have been making their own breaks, with Wills, Mota, Centerfielder Willie Davis and Third Baseman Rich Allen delivering key hits in game after game. The Giants, on the other hand, with Pitchers Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal off their early-season form and the team batting a woeful .163 during their current losing streak, seem to have lost their momentum...
Souvenir Worth Keeping. That evening, though, really belonged to the livelier old bones of Atlanta's Henry Louis Aaron. In the first inning, he lined Giant Pitcher Gaylord Perry's first pitch off the right centerfield fence for a stand-up double. Next time up, when Perry tried to jam him with a high inside fastball, Hammerin' Hank hit a 350-ft. drive that sailed over the leftfield wall and caromed back onto the playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron...