Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forty-one states have also lowered the age of majority from 21 to 18. As a result, 18-year-olds now have fewer problems obtaining sex-related medical services. Their right to any type of medical care has been recognized in 35 states. In all but two states (Nebraska and Wyoming), 18-year-olds do not need parental consent to get most pregnancy-related health services, including abortion. And all 50 states allow anyone over 18 to be treated for venereal disease on their...
...Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president of the National Association of Counties; Democrat Martha Keys, 44, of Kansas, McGovern campaign coordinator for Kansas in 1972 and sister-in-law of Colorado Senator-elect Gary Hart; and Republican Virginia Smith, 63, of Nebraska, a member of the board of the American Farm Bureau...
...Nebraska, James J. Exon...
...study the Boiling committee's recommendations. That committee, headed by Washington's Julia Butler Hansen, watered down or scrapped most of Boiling's plans in its own 86-page proposal. Afraid that reform would be lost altogether if the House opted for the Hansen sugar pills, Nebraska's David Martin, the ranking Republican on the Boiling committee, came up with a 92-page compromise package, halfway between Boiling and Hansen...
...people of Waseca (pop. 6,700) had been preparing to hail David as a conquering hero. But when Kunst reached Nebraska last month, he began denouncing them to newsmen for their "hypocrisy, pettiness, self-righteousness and narrow-mindedness." The townsfolk have also been offended by his announcements that he often enjoyed female companionship along the way and has no intention of resuming his marriage or living in Waseca again. "I'm a social deviate, a radical, even a little crazy," he said recently. "I don't fit into anybody's pattern and I never will...