Word: paul
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While Sears is Reagan's top adviser on strategy, his campaign chairman is one of the Senate's ablest conservatives, Nevada's Paul Laxalt. Last week Reagan named as Laxalt's top assistant another prominent conservative, New York Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills quarterback who made a name for himself politically in 1977 by advocating a 30% cut in federal tax rates...
White resort owners now fear that the Chippewas will attempt to reserve some types of hunting and fishing for Indians alone. If they succeed, hardly any white sportsmen would drive up from Minneapolis-St. Paul. Over dinner in his kitchen, Bob Bruns, owner of Whaley's Resort, gloomily reports that last year he had 46 reservations for deer season; this year he had only three. Says Bruns, who quit his job as a welding supervisor in the Twin Cities eight years ago to move to the reservation: "We figured we had the world by the tail until this thing...
...weeks ago, the Justice Department tried to compel Noraid to designate the Provisional wing of the I.R.A. as its "foreign principal." Noraid refused, and its attorney, former New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer, insisted, "We won't be falsely labeled...
...jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that had been painted pink. But after 20 minutes, the hostility grew, and after three hours some of the men started to tear the paint off the walls. Conclusion: pink may be best for inmates...
...rich diamond pipe been found at Kimberley in the Orange Free State and an immense stratum of gold at Witwatersrand ("the Rand") in the Transvaal. As largely British "Outlanders" poured into the Rand to mine the gold, Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes plotted an uprising against Transvaal President Paul Kruger. But a premature raid tipped Rhodes' hand, and the Boers armed...