Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states that have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. NOW officials say that organizations have yanked $100 million worth of meetings from non-ERA states, and that its boycott has become one of the most effective pressures so far in the drive to get the amendment passed. Missouri and Nevada are suing NOW on grounds that the boycott is an illegal restraint of trade. Says Eugene Hosmer, president of the 134-city International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus: "Business itself is not affected?it just goes somewhere else?but for some cities, the effect has been substantial." Laments Warren...
...growing number of Senators are neither friendly nor persuaded. Missouri's Thomas Eagleton named three Missourians, without any merit commission and without inviting applications, despite Carter's urging of an open process. Carter and the Senate Judiciary Committee are left in an awkward position: If the Administration does not accept Eagleton's nominees, will the Judiciary Committee follow senatorial courtesy and reject anyone that Carter nominates instead for the Missouri spots? Says Bell: "Well, we plan to have a talk with the Senator...
...mild weather that prevailed in the rest of the country was perfect for the season's feasts and fairs. It was time for the Harvard-Yale game, U.S.C.-U.C.L.A., Nebraska-Missouri and a hundred aching clashes between rival high schools. There will be parades this week in Philadelphia, Houston and Hollywood, and of course the big Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. (Missing from that extravaganza, however, will be the familiar figure of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney officials, who control appearances by replicas of the celebrated mouse, do not want him to become too familiar...
...adjust to living in an environment better suited to mountain goats. "How many places do you know," one of the townspeople asks Roueché, "where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting a small German-colonized town in Missouri, Roueché reveals that the passage of more than a century has left the place astonishingly unchanged. If the little community of Hermann were to be picked up and set down somewhere in Germany, Roueché convincingly shows, most of its residents would hardly know the difference...
...read Latin and Greek, occasionally poring over Aristotle in his office; he was a student of theology and philosophy; he was a military expert, having served Stateside in the Marines during World War I. He was also a skilled pilot who had flown with Charles Lindbergh in the Missouri National Guard. During World War II, Alex used to relax on weekends by test-piloting Grumman fighters...