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...smog of gloom upon California. The state is currently using more than 5,000,000 acre-feet a year from the Colorado, and water needs are increasing relentlessly, so the 4.4 million quota seemed dismayingly skimpy. "If you order Scotch on the rocks in 1972," said Attorney General Stanley Mosk, "it may be really on the rocks...
...mayor of Fairfax denied that he had ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that his signature had been obtained "by misrepresentation," and the city councils of Berkeley, Sunnyvale and Mill Valley refused to endorse their mayors' signatures. California's Attorney General Stanley Mosk (who once described the John Birch Society as being composed of "retired military officers and little old ladies in tennis shoes") now called the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade a "fly-by-night promotion." Cried he: "Communism is much too serious a problem to leave in the hands of promoters and political...
...drunken drivers. As a veteran California assemblyman and state senator. McCarthy is a powerful Democrat whose ambitions probably do not stop short of the Governor's mansion. Brown long ago promised McCarthy the job of state attorney general -just as soon as he could appoint the incumbent. Stanley Mosk. to the California supreme court. But, as usual, Brown dithered, reconsidered-and backed away from his promise. McCarthy's reaction was his party-splitting resignation...
When Carleton Mitchell had won his race, rival skippers were full of frank praise for him and his crew. Summed up Mosk Farnham, Figaro's navigator: "Whether it blows hard or easy, they give their very best to that boat. They are dedicated to Finisterre...
Having fought the Russians (whom they call the moskòfs) 13 times in the past 400 years and with a half-million men now under arms, the Turks are undismayed at their exposed position on Soviet Russia's southern flank. They are glad the world is beginning to realize that they have not lost their ancient talent for fighting. The news of spectacular Turkish feats in Korea did not amaze Tahir Atar, a villager from Mengen in central Anatolia. Said he last week: "We knew what our kids could accomplish, but our friends, the Americans, didn...