Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio, a four-year-old girl was dressed in her nightgown, ready for bed. Then she decided to take a last look at her pet bird. She clambered to the top of the kitchen range for a closer view, nudged the gas burner and her nightgown all but exploded in flames. It took 97 days and eleven skin grafts before she could leave the hospital. Even so she was luckier than many others. The Government estimates that 3,000 to 5,000 Americans die each year from burns, many associated with flammable clothing and interior furnishings. Another...
...guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed...
...full name was William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, but to 1.5 million Liberians he was simply "Old Daddy." As President for 27 years of the Ohio-size West African rubber republic, he was the oldest, established, permanent, doting, elected patriarch on the continent. Indeed, so popular was Old Daddy with his subjects that the only thing that could oust him from office was death. The ouster came last week, when the 75-year-old President succumbed to complications following a prostate-gland operation in a London hospital...
...riverbank. A few kids impatiently paddled their toes in the water. A young husband shushed a baby on his shoulder. On the far shore a car pulled up, waited, drove away; the ferry was not running tonight. Then, from the barge floating a few feet out in the rippling Ohio River, the music danced deliciously across the water. This was the big day of the year in Ravenswood, W. Va. (pop. 4,500), and almost everybody was on hand to enjoy...
...understood the problem firsthand. To get his orchestra started, Boudreau walked the streets knocking on doors, until H.J. Heinz II, head of H.J. Heinz Co., gave him $15,000 and Duquesne University matched it. Ever since, he has been floating his barge up, down and around the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, drawing audiences to the riverbanks for the kind of experience more often enjoyed in the past by kings -notably King George I, who ordered up the Handel Water Music...