Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much earlier novelist than Karl May sparked the German "love affair" with our American West. He was H.B. Möllhausen, an artist-naturalist who in 1857-58 accompanied Lieut. Joseph C. Ives on the first Colorado River expedition. Möllhausen returned to Germany to become a popular novelist who recaptured the American West from his own experiences. May perhaps resembles Zane Grey, but Möllhausen was actually compared to James Fenimore Cooper...
...Alta M. Evans...
...united as never before or since, gasoline rationing was marked by corruption, favoritism and loopholes. Today, rationing would be enforced by the same Department of Energy folks who have done so much to confuse and compound the gasoline mess. Says Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal: "The more I'm in the Government, the more market-oriented I become. No bureaucrats with pins at the Department of Energy, trying to figure out how much gasoline each gas station in the country should get, can set out a way to distribute gas in this country." Nor can they fairly and soundly figure...
...other side began to organize." Based in Washington, her group is spending about $1 million this year in a drive to raise funds, expand its field operations and enlarge membership beyond the present 65,000. It has distributed some 200,000 postcards bearing the message, "I'm pro-choice and I vote...
...target of much of the lobbying was polite but unbudgeable Congressman Hyde. As members of the clergy clustered about him, Hyde said calmly: "I'm for everyone to follow the dictates of their conscience. But a constitutional right to want something doesn't mean the right to have the Government pay for it." As the debate warmed up, Hyde tossed out one of his favorite lines: "There are 1 million children who are thrown away like Kleenex because someone thinks that they are not as valuable as a snail darter." Hyde brushed aside all counterarguments. "Taking a human...