Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third of five children born to an Irish-American family in Sebring, Ohio (pop. 5,000), she remains especially close to Brother Joseph, a member of Illinois' Cook County board of commissioners. After joining Nixon's staff, she began to share in no small way the ups and downs of his career. A member of the vice-presidential motorcade that was stoned by Venezuelan Communists in 1958, Rose quickly donned dark glasses "so those people wouldn't see me cry." In California, after Nixon's losing presidential race in 1960, she bought a convertible and began...
...book continues with examples of the everyday scenes that hardly anyone stops to notice: a defacing web of electric and telephone wires across California's lovely Owens Valley, an empty parking lot behind a blank-walled movie theater in Paramus, N.J., an ugly carwash building in Lorain, Ohio. Each photo is as carefully composed as a painting by Edward Hopper, and disappointment clearly shows in each. Turning to the great achievements of the past, Plowden finds little consolation. The splendid ferries and mighty iron bridges that he loves to photograph are obsolescent and vanishing. In Lordville, N.Y., he shows...
Schoolteacher John Miller and a neighbor were painting Miller's barn roof at his farm near Lucasville, Ohio. Wham! The neighbor was almost knocked off his aluminum ladder by an electric shock. In the town of Franklin Furnace, Farmer C.B. Ruggles' son was riding his pony when-whap!-he and the animal were jolted, apparently by electrical charges in the metallic parts of the bridle and stirrups. A housewife in Lucasville turned on the tap to do the dishes...
...source of the troubles is the Ohio Power Co.'s new "extra-high-voltage" (765,000-volt) transmission line through southern Ohio. It is radiating so powerful an electromagnetic field that an unconnected fluorescent tube would light up. It is all very spectacular, but residents are not amused...
Adams House, where Tetirick says he is one of only two varsity gridders, is a far cry from the atmosphere of Columbus, Ohio, where he played on three consecutive state championship teams at Upper Arlington High School...