Word: harolds
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Vexation with Taxation. In Iowa, where a similar L.B.J. intervention failed to persuade Democratic Governor Harold Hughes to take on G.O.P. Senator Jack Miller, Hughes, an ex-truck driver and reformed alcoholic, easily won re-election over Republican William G. Murray, an Iowa State University economics professor; nonetheless, Hughes-imposed tax increases cut down his margin of victory. The voters' revolt over taxes-cum-inflation was also a major issue in Kansas...
Flunking Freshmen. In Hubert Humphrey's bailiwick of Minnesota, Republicans profited from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's decay and disarray. Beleaguered by intraparty strife and a state insurance scandal, Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag was toppled by Republican Moderate Harold LeVander, 56, a St. Paul attorney and onetime law partner of Harold Stassen's. Swedish-descended son of a Lutheran preacher, LeVander is a stem-winding speaker who has delivered more than 200 high school commencement addresses with such galvanizing titles as "Rise Up and Build" and "You Have Singled; Now Score...
...celebrate the anniversary, many of the 220,000 white Rhodesians went to band concerts, braaivleis (barbecues) and balls. Clearly, Rhodesia was not becoming a "banana republic," as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had predicted. Instead, one nightclub had on its U.D.I, menu such defiant delicacies as "clear turtle soup a la Wilson" and "fried filet of Martin Luther King...
...with suspicious injuries are presumed guilty of abuse-and must prove otherwise or lose custody of their child. Until now, many of the country's "battered children" (10,000 a year) lacked such protection because few can speak and their parents shield one another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself...
After Monro had left. Harold B. Benenson '67, an SDS member who had seen Dean Monro privately last week, said "I'm really distressed that people laughed and hissed . . . It looks like we just told Dean Monro that we aren't going to stick together when it comes times to push and shove...