Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merle Martin Wooster, Ohio...
...When the Ohio is fully outfitted and commissioned in November 1980, its 154 officers and sailors will be the envy of the Navy's submariners. The crew will live in nine-man rooms instead of mass dormitories, each room with a table and lounge. At every bunk will be a stereo headset for listening to music. These amenities are important. Explains Rear Admiral Charles Larson, the Trident program coordinator: "The physical limit on how long you can stay out on a nuclear submarine is determined by the food and other consumables on board -and the psychological limit...
...Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee and Carter's principal Senate ally on energy, supported phased decontrol. But a trip back home to the Northwest changed his mind, as voters howled about rising fuel prices. Last week Jackson joined with Kennedy and Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, one of the Administration's bitterest foes in previous energy fights, in co-sponsoring a bill to overrule Carter and extend price controls for two years. With less than five weeks remaining before Congress's Memorial Day break, the bill, which requires a majority vote...
...painting today, the chief image maker of the City, apart from Bacon himself, is a 47-year-old American from Cleveland, Ohio, named R.B. Kitaj (pronounced Kit-eye). Kitaj has been living in London for more than 20 years, and has not shown regularly in the U.S. Consequently, he seems more of a name than a presence in American art. In England, his reputation is, if anything, exaggerated in the other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings...
DIED. Charles Sawyer, 92, former Secretary of Commerce (1948-53); of a stroke; in Palm Beach, Fla. A Cincinnati lawyer and entrepreneur, Sawyer ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1938 and six years later was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Belgium by President Roosevelt. Here signed his diplomatic assignment the following year and was named to the Cabinet by his good friend Harry Truman in 1948. A conservative Democrat who served as the Administration's envoy to the business community, Sawyer denounced stringent antitrust legislation and advocated lower corporate taxes and a balanced budget...