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Seemingly innocent Paul McCarney is revealed to have been engaged to girlfriend Dot Rhone while she was pregnant. “With the pregnancy only three months along, Dot miscarried,” Spitz writes. “With [Paul] suddenly free of obligation, it was only a matter of time before they turned bitterly frigid, and a few weeks later he announced that it was over between them...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Beatles | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

Every state in the Union is in dire need of a "king of the referendum" such as the North Dakotans are blessed with in the person of Millionaire Robert McCarney [June 13]. He saved his state's taxpayers some $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1977 | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...McCarney, "king of the referendum," is more than a politician's foe. He's the foe of everyone interested in more than immediate monetary gain. Those buildings mentioned so casually in your article are desperately needed university facilities. If McCarney had his way, our state universities would simply be starved of funds till they died a natural death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1977 | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

What drives McCarney to organize his referendums? Partly his own irrepressibility. "I'm like a rabbit in the middle of a field," he chuckles. "No one knows which way I'm going to run next." But he claims he does it mainly because someone has to stand up for what's right-and he's spent $250,000 of his own funds in the process. "If you keep your money and the government needs it," he says, "the government can always get it. But if the government has your money and you need it, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH DAKOTA: King of the Referendum | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Many legislators argue that McCarney's referendums have cut back progressive programs, like state-supported kindergartens, but McCarney remains unshaken. People, he says, "can't afford to pay more taxes. If something isn't done, it's going to destroy the home, and eventually it's going to destroy America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH DAKOTA: King of the Referendum | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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