Word: governors
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...temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college economics instructor (his doctoral dissertation was The Economic Mind in 18th Century Colonial America), spent 18-hour days grappling with the economic minds of angry 20th century Californians. Also breathing heavily on the legislators was Governor Jerry Brown, whose own plans for dealing with the crisis-and perhaps his political career-were at stake...
...third-and fourth-graders swarmed through the Vermont statehouse last January and persuaded legislators to designate Apis mellifera (the honeybee) as the state's official insect. Argued one of the young lobbyists: "Bees are industrious, just like us Vermonters." The bill was duly signed into law by Governor Richard A. Snelling...
...noon one day last week, 10,000 bees droned into Montpelier and settled under the eaves near the Governor's office. "It's probably just a delegation to thank Governor Snelling," joked Beekeeper Emile ("Beaver") Couillard, 65, as he climbed a ladder 50 ft. to reach the gathering insects. Couillard, who likes bees as much as any other industrious Vermonter, took the swarm home to his hives, where he expects them to produce about $150 worth of honey this year-enough to take the sting...
BORN. To Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 34, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, and Charles S. Robb, 39, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor: their third child, third daughter; in Fairfax, Va. Name: Jennifer...
...Youngdahl, 82, unflappable federal judge who in three famous rulings bucked the Government's anti-Communist zeal of the 1950s; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused...