Word: pennsylvania
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...quadrennial celebration of the near future is upon the U.S. From hamlet and city will come the bits and pieces of the American mosaic, and as they move down Pennsylvania Avenue this Thursday, they will reflect for one afternoon the diversity and genius of the nation, its joy and its confusion. There will be floats, mummers, horse platoons -and hope...
Pastor received his undergraduate degree in history from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. Following his graduation from the Kennedy School of Government, Pastor became a teaching fellow with Harvard's Government department, and is presently at work completing his doctoral thesis...
Beneath the opening week's gaiety were barely submerged apprehensions and tensions. Reflecting the worry that Jimmy Carter may take Congress for granted, Speaker O'Neill warned that "common sense and the Constitution demand that Pennsylvania Avenue remain a two-way street." Liberal Democrats are already restive over Carter's apparent intention to place budget-balancing goals above the need for such programs as welfare reform and national health insurance. Many Democrats, too, favor a larger jobs program than they expect Carter to recommend. Neither do Republicans expect to sit idly by while Carter and congressional Democratic...
...Jimmy Carter. At a news conference just before New Year's, Press Secretary Jody Powell let it be known that the President-elect was looking for ways to break out of the "rather strange and unnatural world of staff and press and politicians" he will enter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "He does not think it's healthy." Powell suggested that other Americans might have some ideas on how Jimmy could keep in touch with jes' folks and urged them to send their cards and letters to People, P.O. Box 2600, Washington...
...member task force headed by Powell is sifting through the suggestions. At least one idea is already being given serious consideration: a toll-free phone line to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on which people could ring up the White House for help in solving whatever problems they have with the Government. The proposer, William Forhan of Tracyton, Wash., also suggested that the number should be an easily remembered acronym: PEANUTS...