Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national currency declares, "In God We Trust," and each day in the House and Senate commences with prayer. To vote against the idea was, emotionally at least, heretical. But as Utah Representative K. Gunn McKay, a Mormon elder, said, "I do not want Government tampering with my faith." Ohio's Samuel L. Devine replied: "The courts say you can read dirty books but can't pray in school...
Heavyweight Champ Joe Frazier stepped into some jolting verbal punches at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, but he finished the bout without a mark on him. Many of the inmates, who were appearing with him on a TV talk show originating from the prison, were partisans of ex-Champ Muhammad Ali, whom Frazier defeated last March. "I don't think you beat him. It was the three-year layoff," somebody yelled. Ali had been in fine shape for the fight, countered Joe. "Before the layoff, I woulda beaten him up worse. He got suspended for a while. There...
...unlimited class, Angelo Mareno, a 250 lbs. senior, returns with the experience of a letterman. Mareno will be hard pushed by sophomore Bob Kristoff to hold his starting post. Kristoff is an Ohio State champion and probably the best athlete on the team. But Kristoff has been committed to the football squad this fall and dropped off the wrestling team after four matches last winter because he could not manage two sports and academics in the first term...
...unpredictable factor going into 1972. In East Lansing, Mich., two city councilmen were elected by appealing to the newly enfranchised youngsters; both campaigned on issues popular at Michigan State University, such as building more housing and recreational facilities for the campus area (see story, page 18). In Newcomerstown, Ohio, 19-year-old Ronald J. Hooker won election as mayor on a law-and-order platform: he vowed to stop motorists from roaring through quiet village streets. The youth vote contributed to the election of Republican State Assemblyman Pete Wilson, 38, as mayor of San Diego. An advance man for Richard...
...before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked up a degree at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in the 1940s and a taste for Savile Row suits as Peking's charge in London in the early 1960s...