Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Anna Chennault, a longtime supporter of Chiang Kaishek, signaled agreement by permitting her name to appear on a slate of delegates pledged to Nixon at the Republican National Convention. Some conservatives, of course, reacted as Nixon may have expected them to. Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook, who is challenging Nixon in the New Hampshire primary, called the Taiwan statement a "sellout" that will lead eventually to a Communist takeover of the island. As he arrived back in the U.S., Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. announced, "I am no longer interested in Richard Nixon," and went...
David Diao, 28, came to New York eight years ago from Gambier, Ohio, where he had been studying philosophy at Kenyon College. In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance. Thick swaths of glossy acrylic are rolled onto the canvas in 5-ft.-wide swipes, and then buried by further layers. "I wanted to get away from all those tricks and nuances," says Diao. "I like to just lay a color down and leave it." The broad squeegee marks...
...Ohio last year closed all state parks for two months beginning in mid-August, cut average state payments for care of the aged in nursing homes from $11 to $10 per day per patient, and furloughed 3,000 state employees. Having thus dramatized a shortage of funds, Democratic Governor James Gilligan persuaded the Republican-controlled legislature to pass a one-half of 1% to 3% income tax and was able to increase budget appropriations by 27%, to $7.7 billion, for the two-year period ending in mid-1973. Even that leaves only a piddling...
Just as two candidates are claiming victory in the Democratic primary, two Republicans are claiming victory in their primary as well. The third candidate, Rep. John Ashbrook (R-Ohio) is not calling the New Hampshire result a defeat...