Word: matheson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spielberg gives each actor the same small amount of screen time, the audience has no one to root for, and the stars have few chances to make a strong impression. Often the frothiest bits, such as the doubleentendre courtship of a secretary (Nancy Allen) and a young soldier (Tim Matheson), are suffocated by John Williams' excessive musical score. Only Belushi upstages the chaos around him, and even his repertoire of eating and belching jokes seems strained when separated from the scruffy, modest context of Animal House...
Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who chaired the conference, declared later: "The West is not as angry as it was a little while ago." Even Colorado's Richard Lamm, an early Carter critic, seemed mollified. Said Lamm of the President: "His words were very reassuring...
...Almost 64 years after legendary Labor Agitator Joe Hill was executed for murder by a Utah firing squad, a retired union publicist named Leslie Orear has launched a campaign to persuade Governor Scott M. Matheson to pardon...
...Pioneer Day legend with a mammoth parade. At the head of the procession was Brigham Young's latest successor, Spencer Woolley Kimball, 83, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Behind him were brass bands, floats, fiddlers, and such lesser dignitaries as Scott M. Matheson, the Governor of Utah...
...Tulsa Hospital Council fought the project, arguing that the city already had a surplus of 1.000 hospital beds. Grumbled State Representative Mandell Matheson: "We are not talking about man building a monument to God, but man building a monument to man." The Oklahoma Health Planning Agency, a federal advisory board, recommended disapproval of Roberts' application. But after an intensive nationwide letter-writing campaign by the evangelist's supporters and lobbying by political friends, the state's health planning commission last week gave Roberts a go-ahead to begin building. Still, God's plans were somewhat modified...