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...only Senator to suggest publicly that Long step down as whip has been Arizona's Carl Hayden. Long was not about to take the hint. In Baton Rouge last week, he threw down the gauntlet. "If they don't want me to do it," he said, "they'll have to fire...
Squiggly Lines. The first hint that the Northeast's huge CANUSE (for Canadian-U.S. Eastern interconnection) power grid was in trouble came at 5:16 p.m. Moving clockwise, millions of kilowatts of electricity were coursing through the vast network of cables to meet the early-evening needs of the Western Hemisphere's most heavily populated, most power-dependent region. In the humming central control room of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, ink pens tracing the flow of power suddenly shuddered. At the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. on the other side of Lake Ontario, the dials on a wall lurched...
...first hint of a more conciliatory French view came at the annual meeting of the IMF in October, when France's finance minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing said that it was at least "conceivable" that a distribution of additional reserve assets could take into account "other criteria" besides gold holdings...
Harvey's lengthy report appeared in early October, with the first hint that Morrissey's membership in the Georgia Bar had been obtained through the endorsement of a questionable, two-man law college. Only twelve days later, Political Editor Bob Healy revealed the seeming conflict between Morrissey's 1934 stay in Georgia and the one-year residency requirement for his 1934 candidacy in a race for state representative in Massachusetts...
...said, however, that Hill provides a significant change for Sean Connery fans everywhere. Rough as a thistle, sporting a mustache, he lends muscular presence to a conventional he-man role, and stirs up a hint or two that what has heretofore been sealed in Bond may be the screen's new Gable...