Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampshire, 1,126 candidates have filed for 400 seats at the next state constitutional convention; ten years ago, there were so few candidates that 82 people won election with write-in candidacies. At last count 14 candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near Cleveland. In Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, town meetings that were once sparsely attended are now overflowing with people. "The cliche is that good government begins at home," says Tom Donohue, chairman of the Winnetka nonpartisan caucus committee. "I think people are beginning to realize that that is true...
...people out of work, and created scarcities of food, gasoline and othe critical supplies throughout the East and Midwest. Though truck traffic began to pick up slowly at week's end, bands of angry militants, dissatisfied with the agreement continued their harassment in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. Original strike leaders were pushing for ratification of the pact, but it would take days to get a precise reading of truckers' view...
...driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove his rig near East Liverpool, Ohio. Still other drivers were dragged from their cabs and beaten. Strikers waited guard at truck stops in the Midwest; sometimes, if a driver refused to join the walkout, his tires were slashed, or his radiator was punctured, or his truck was overturned. Part of the underpinning of a Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...headquarters of some independent organizations, newspaper reports of plant closings and other disruptions were eagerly read aloud. Said George Rynn, vice president of the Council of Independent Truckers in Barberton, Ohio: "It's amazing how easily you can shut down this country...
...California trio; the players went unclaimed through the first five rounds of the N.F.L. college draft. While N.F.L. owners said little about the new threat, they quietly stressed to recruits the value of their league's elaborate fringe benefits -goodies that the W.F.L. cannot yet offer. Ohio State Tackle John Hicks, for instance, considered the W.F.L. but last week came to terms with the Giants immediately after being drafted. "There is a certain amount of security in the N.F.L.," said Hicks...