Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Kretschmar says he used effectively in bringing off a victory. Pleased by the success, she then placed calls to state legislators in Illinois, where the ERA finally got out of committee; to Nevada, where it was subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however, proved unavailing; Arizona's senate voted against the amendment last month. "I'm not trying to twist anyone's arm," says Mrs. Ford. "All I'm asking them...
Philip LaZebnik '75, returned to Harvard in the fall of 1973 with an original musical, The Truth of Mons Herbert, that had had its world premiere that summer in a Unitarian church in Columbia, Missouri. Against all odds--in a university town in August when the population is practically reduced to owners of pizza stands--the show was a success, attendance skyrocketed, and the house was filled for the last two nights. But when LaZebnik tried to find a group to sponsor the production at Harvard several months later, no one seemed to have any faith that the musical would...
...Price is popular and trusted within the House. For 16 terms his constituents from the grimy industrial towns around East St. Louis have elected him to Congress, recently with margins in excess of 2 to 1. Now 70, Price worked as a reporter for several Illinois and Missouri newspapers before his election...
Died. Thomas Hart Benton, 85, Missouri-born regionalist painter; in Kansas City...
Since events pushed inflation and recession to Page One and the top of TV news programs, it has become painfully apparent that American journalism, by and large, provides dismal coverage of the Dismal Science. Lyle Harris, director of the business-journalism program at the University of Missouri, sees business reporting as "a great wasteland. The public doesn't understand the stories, and the reporters don't either." To Louis Rukeyser, moderator of Public Broadcasting's excellent Wall Street Week, economics is the "No. 1 failing of journalism...