Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRAN WILLIAMS University of Nebraska Lincoln...
...attorney, and Incumbent Hughes, 56, an affable, undistinguished administrator who is seeking a second four-year term, had almost nothing to argue about. Both agreed that New Jersey's most pressing problem, a chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify the populace with pleas for purer water, cleaner air, faster transit facilities...
...Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska asked Fortas to explain his part in the Walter Jenkins case last year. Fortas recalled that Jenkins, then a top White House aide, had called to say he was in "terrible trouble." Jenkins had, in fact, been arrested on a charge involving a homosexual act, but, Fortas said, Jenkins was so distraught that he couldn't give him a clear story. "1 could not get an answer," said Fortas. "But I was desperately concerned for this man's wife and six children." Fortas and Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford went...
Approval Ahead. It was a foregone conclusion that the three-man subcommittee, consisting of Eastland, Sam Ervin of North Carolina and Roman Hruska of Nebraska, would act favorably on the nomination. It did. Liberal members of the parent committee forced a delay of a vote by the full committee until this week, but there seemed to be little doubt that it would recommend Senate approval...
...delegates spent two days in discussions about various blots on the landscape and the villains who put them there. "Our enemy is the highway engineer," said a woman delegate from Nebraska, suggesting that all such engineers should be required to take a course in esthetics, including the reading of great poets. Najeeb Halaby, former Federal Aviation Agency chief, said that public officials "are not usually brave enough" to do what they must to preserve natural beauty...