Word: governors
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Lopez Portillo announced that Carter had asked Reubin Askew, former governor of Florida, to head a congressionally-mandated commission to report by 1980 on immigration and refugee problems, an issue not resolved during the summit...
Atkins said he cannot say whether Gov Edward J. King will accept the compromise Senate bill, but that the governor's staff seems amenable to the compromise...
...away had made her a political heroine. She is now one of the favorites in this year's race to succeed Carroll, who is ineligible to succeed himself. If she survives the May primary and wins in November, one thing is likely: Thelma Stovall will be a woman Governor who knows that her place is in the mansion...
...Then Governor Meldrim Thomson responded to the Supreme Court ruling by ordering the LIVE FREE OR DIE battle cry imprinted on all official stationery and on all highways leading into the state. But Thomson was beaten in the November election, and the state's newly installed Governor, Hugh Gallen, has decided to give the patriotic slogan a rest, initially by removing it from his own letterheads. And what is the proposed new slogan for license plates? SCENIC NEW HAMPSHIRE. On second thought...
Need a hired hand in Florida? Dial the Capitol in Tallahassee. Newly inaugurated Governor Robert Graham just took in $24 for an eight-hour day laying sod. "It's good for you psychologically. It cleans out the cobwebs of the day-today crises you normally deal with," says Graham, 42, who literally worked his way into office by spending 100 days of his campaign at odd jobs. Among them: scrubbing bedpans, covering a police beat, hefting fertilizer and tuning Toyotas. The idea was to "get in touch with the people" (and perhaps make voters forget his roots...