Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews, Mormons and others, they are a small minority in the nation. But, like the gun enthusiasts, they are passionately interested in one issue, and they seem intent on voting against anyone who does not agree with them. Indeed, in such crucial, closely contested states as Illinois, Ohio and Missouri, the right to lifers are already mounting massive drives to get out the vote...
...standard stump speech became laced with Carterisms. At a Democratic Party rally in Albuquerque, Mondale urged a new Government "close to the values we have learned in church." He added: "Washington seems distant, isolated, out of touch with the American people." Touring a 1,700-acre farm in Missouri, he described the family farm as "our most sacred institution" and blamed farmers' problems with some Government programs on "unknown, unelected, faceless bureaucrats...
Engaged. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, an elementary-school teacher in Maryland and for 15 years a nun in the Sisters of the Holy Cross. The marriage will be his second, her first. A former Kansas City chief of police, Kelley flew to Missouri each weekend after his 1973 FBI appointment to see his wife Ruby, who died of cancer last November...
...sightseers on the first day of the convention. Other features of the tourist route: the Nelson Gallery of Art (also the scene of an enormous 1,500-guest reception attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller the evening before the convention began); the Mission Hills district, straddling the Missouri-Kansas border, where $250,000 mansions abound, built with fortunes based on grain, livestock, chemicals, candy, banking and real estate; and the dozens of magnificent fountains which dot the city like diamond studs...
...dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...