Word: hixson
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...Houston. Strategy to ensure the passage of the entire National Plan of Action was mapped out ahead of time. The night before the voting began, some 500 delegates were instructed on debating and voting procedures. They were told not to leave the floor without permission. Kentucky Delegate Allie Hixson, a cattle breeder, exhorted her state's representatives: "We want to be disciplined, cooperative, supportive. Arrive early, allow for the overload in elevators and let nothing delay you, pro-plan people." Said Bonnie Lesley, a Texas delegate: "We're calling on you to be more disciplined, perhaps, than you have ever...
...state laws restricting "private sexual behavior between consenting adults." Recognizing that many women feared that the resolution would hurt chances for passage of the ERA, Arizona Delegate Sue Dye explained: "It was a matter of sympathy, even though it makes things more difficult politically." Agreed Kentucky's Allie Hixson, chairwoman of her delegation: "This is a women's rights issue because if any group of individuals is repressed, it affects us all." The vote on the issue, said Liz Carpenter, head of ERAmerica, shows "how secure women have become. Five years ago, it would have been impossible...
...John R. Hixson, an employee in the city transportation office, said workers will begin building a temporary station to handle Harvard Square passengers while the subway line is being extended, "by about late October or November." The temporary station will occupy a site on the Eliot St. MBTA yards, near where workers are now building the new John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...Hixson added that the entire project, which will add five stops to the Red Line at a cost of about $600 million, will be completed in about five or six years...
...John Hixson, a forum administrator, said yesterday he envisions the main purpose of the program as one of offering alternative routes to cyclists who are unfamiliar with the current traffic layout...