Word: ohio
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Beneath the pagoda on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, a federal jury last week surveyed the site where on May 4, 1970, four Kent State students were slain by gunfire and nine were wounded during a campus protest against U.S. military involvement in Cambodia. Now, 4½ years after the event that symbolized the agony of a nation divided, eight of the 800 Ohio National Guardsmen on duty at Kent State that day are on trial in Cleveland. Among the charges: assaulting and intimidating the demonstrators and depriving them of their civil rights...
...harm when they opened fire on student demonstrators, accompanied the jurors to Kent State last week. None seemed particularly happy to be back on campus. "It certainly brought back a lot of unpleasant memories," said Barry Morris, 30, of Kent. Added another defendant, James D. McGee, 28, of Ravenna, Ohio: "I'll be glad to leave here...
Died. James M. Cox Jr., 71, newspaper and broadcasting executive; after a long illness; in Miami. Born to politics and printer's ink, Cox was the son and namesake of the newspaper publisher and Ohio Governor who ran a losing race against Warren G. Harding as the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee. Starting in 1929 as a police-beat reporter on his father's Dayton Daily News, he later led the Cox chain's expansion into broadcasting. The Cox holdings grew to include major newspapers and TV and radio stations in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina...
Though Plunkett's past performance on the gridiron has been more conservative than flashy, it obviously speaks for itself. The honors and accolades have been heaped on him. During his career at Stanford, where he majored in political science, he shattered NCAA records, beat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, made every All-American team, and won the Maxwell Award as well as the highly-touted Heisman Trophy...
...four Republicans who supported Nixon by voting against impeachment and were returned to their seats in the House were Representatives C. Trent Lott (Miss.), Delbert L. Latta (Ohio), Edward Hutchinson (Mich.) and Charles E. Wiggins (Calif...