Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead college students have this habit of trotting him out under the guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...Nebraska has commissioned a dozen American artists to create pieces of outdoor sculpture at rest stops along an interstate highway. About 1,000 elementary schoolchildren from suburban Kettering, Ohio, will dress in red, white and blue clothing on July 4,1976, to re-create the human flag that welcomed the Wright brothers home...
...There once was a Congressman named Thone/ Whose last name rhymed with phone/ But he felt slightly forlorn/ When called Thane, Stone or Thorn/ Thus, the 'Congressional Pronunciation Guide' was born." The fractured versifier is Republican Representative Charles Thone of Nebraska, who has just issued a third edition of his phonetic congressional directory. The six-page booklet was first suggested to Thone by a Nebraska radio announcer who was troubled by the frequent mispronunciation of political names over the air. Thone sent a questionnaire to every member of Congress, followed up with phone calls, and in 1971 issued...
Udall said he will run a selective but nationwide campaign to prove his viability as a national candidate. "But in Massachusetts New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, California. North Carolina there are the states I'm looking at right now," he said...
...Senate Republicans, for example, elected Nebraska's four-term Carl Curtis, a conservative and last-ditch defender of Richard Nixon, as chairman of the Republican Conference, over New York's liberal Jacob Javits. Although the Senate Democratic Caucus continued its practice of naming committee chairmen on the basis of seniority for the current two-year Congress, it decided to follow the lead of the House for the session beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations...