Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...
Hogan said he might try to hitch on to a club this summer even if he isn't grabbed to the draft. Thomas is thinking in terms of playing for Canada in the Pan Am games this fall...
...hadn't really talked to decided to go with me. His name was Bill and he seemed a little bit suspicious to me because he was awful young and all he had was a coat under his arm. But Bill assured me he had lots of experience hitching cross country and he showed it too by telling me right off that we couldn't hitch in Reno and anyway we'd pick up more traffic moving east if we walked to where the Reno bypass met up with Route...
...acres of farm land on the fringes of America's suburbs-an area roughly half the size of Rhode Island-are taken out of crops and put into buildings. Though the loss may seem insignificant in a nation with 470 million acres of cropland, there is a hitch. Much of the lost acreage is top-quality farm land, rich soil that the U.S. should keep as a major resource. But to save such land for farming has been almost impossible. Buying it outright is too expensive. Zoning it for agricultural use only can often be illegal. The U.S. Constitution...
Political Credit. Unless there is an unforeseen last-minute hitch, rebate checks on 1974 taxes should begin flowing to taxpayers in May. The extra cash for most Americans is expected to give the economy a substantial boost. Republican President Ford will be able to take political credit for pushing the Congress into relatively prompt action and the Democratic leaders to claim that they delivered a more effective tax stimulus than the President had requested...