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...former Sacramento car dealer named Edwin Koupal and his wife Joyce. Originally, back in 1969, they set out only to fight Los Angeles smog. "I couldn't believe people could really live in that air," says Joyce Koupal. "My first reaction was, 'Why don't they outlaw it?' " The Koupals began collecting signatures for an unsuccessful antismog petition, but when the Federal Government announced its own rules against air pollution, they decided to broaden their campaign. Says Koupal: "We began asking ourselves, 'Why should we go out and collect signatures for just one issue...
...Sapporo Olympics on the grounds that he had repeatedly broken the amateur regulations, has announced that he is going to give up Alpine racing, though he is not yet ready to become a full-fledged professional. "I should like to end my career in dignity, and not as an outlaw of international sports politics," said Schranz, who in 18 years of competition has won three world championships, two World Cups, eleven Austrian championships and eight firsts in the famed Arlberg-Kandahar race...
...married a young Texas aristocrat, Ella Rice, and headed for Hollywood. A gangling Texas prodigy, he broke into moviemaking by producing a flop or two and then, with a combination of gambler's profligacy and an obsessive genius for detail, started turning out hits (Hell's Angels, Scarface, The Outlaw) and stars (Jean Harlow. Pat O'Brien. Jane Russell...
...1940s, he once prosecuted a black rape suspect so viciously, calling him, among other epithets, "a lustful animal," that a higher court ordered a new trial. As a 19-year Congressman, he introduced bills to prevent the homosexual Mattachine Society from collecting funds in the capital, and to outlaw as obscene those publications that feature "intrigues between men and women and immoral conduct of persons." More substantively, he led a subcommittee investigation of builders and real estate operators who were making large profits from urban renewal projects...
Evil Spirit. The British hounded the outlaw Fenians. Toward the end of the century, though, Home Rule for Ireland became a realistic possibility. Its most notable advocate was four-time Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone. He tried to exorcise the "evil spirit" of Ireland from Westminster by disestablishing the Anglican Church there and by providing British-government funds for Catholic peasants to buy land from Protestant landlords. Yet in any discussion of autonomy for Ireland, the sticking point was always Ulster, whose Protestants feared the consequences of any kind of separation from England. In 1886, Gladstone's government was defeated...