Word: ohio
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PETER J. MOLAY Richmond Heights, Ohio...
...whether democracy is well served by perpetuating incumbents in office. Would it not be better to afford challengers the opportunity to make their names and programs as familiar to the voters as are those of entrenched opponents? Last year's congressional elections brought two notable examples. In Ohio, an obscure millionaire named Howard Metzenbaum bought state-wide name recognition through heavy TV spending; without it, he could not possibly have defeated Former Astronaut, John Glenn in the Democratic senatorial primary. In New York, a slightly known, but wealthy Democratic Congressman, Richard Ottinger, won his party's senatorial nomination...
...house is deceptive: it is actually one of the far-flung little "graduate schools" run by Ohio's freewheeling Antioch College. Every day Stevens goes to a job in the guidance office of a nearby high school as part of her work toward a master of arts in teaching. Her new emphasis on dealing "with one person at one level at a time" is an outgrowth of her post-Wheaton frustration over conventional reformist projects. As a graduate student at the Columbia School of Social Work, she went to Harlem to act as a "block catalyst." Her block was black...
...year has not erased all of the hatred that flared into gunfire on the campus of Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
...ancients, nearly 110 years old, on a Louisiana plantation. Recollecting her life for a tape recorder, she remembers herself first as a slave child, fetching water for Confederate soldiers in retreat, then for Yankees in pursuit. A Yank corporal named Brown tells her to look him up in Ohio. After the Emancipation Proclamation, she sets out to do just that. Most of the ex-slaves impulsively migrating north with her are killed by white-trash patrollers. The moral is fundamental to Gaines' temperament: the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same...