Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Receiver Pat McInally is the most recent Harvard football first team All-American, achieving that honor in 1974. He did it some 33 years after the last Crimson All-American gridder. Who was this guard turned Governor of Massachusetts...
...warrior father. Arthur MacArthur was not yet 20 when he led a charge up Missionary Ridge in the Civil War, an action that won him the Medal of Honor. He went on to fight Apaches in the West and Spaniards in the Philippines, which he subsequently administered as military governor. Temperamental and occasionally insubordinate, he was publicly rebuked by Teddy Roosevelt for predicting war with Germany. "Arthur MacArthur," his aide later said, "was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever seen, until...
...rebellion of the 1950s, once regarded by the outside world as a reversion to the terror and bestiality of the African past, came to be viewed as a war of independence. Kenyatta himself, who had been denounced by a British colonial governor as "a leader to darkness and death," became as the ruler of his new nation a symbol of reconciliation without rancor. As a special mark of respect, the British government announced that Prince Charles would represent Queen Elizabeth II at Kenyatta's funeral this week...
...favor of lower taxes and less Government spending. As Tennessee Politico Shelton Edwards once observed: "The way to get somewhere in politics is to find a crowd that's going some place and get in front of it." Conservative G.O.P. Strategist Lyn Nofziger grudgingly praises Democrats like California Governor Jerry Brown, who first opposed, then capitalized on his state's property tax revolt. Says Nofziger: "The Democrats are very fast to get in front on such an issue...
...suit and tie and roller-skates seven miles across San Francisco to his office. He is not alone. The Bay City also boasts a roller-skating messenger service, skating grocery shoppers and skating mothers pushing baby carriages. In Los Angeles, Linda Ronstadt skated to a luncheon date with Governor Jerry Brown. On the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., a thousand skaters may appear on a Sunday, navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating a practical means of transportation. "I tie my shoes to my belt loops...