Word: pennsylvania
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Bayh finished last among the major Democratic candidates in yesterday's election, only ahead of anti-abortion candidate Ellen McCormack and Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp...
...several years they have been a fixture of downtown Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in the old hard-coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania. They wear pins that say GET SMART, GET SAVED. Abstemious, straitlaced, pushy in their missionary piety, they work the streets, buttonholing teen-age passers-by with provocative zeal...
STRIP-MINING. The coal industry in the past has been roundly condemned for strip-mining coal and then simply abandoning the ravaged land. Nowadays, the record is far better; by spending between $600 and $6,500 an acre, mining companies have restored some land in the Midwest and Pennsylvania so well that no one would suspect that the acreage had been stripped. In contrast with those areas, which are well watered, much of the West's coal lands get less than 10 inches of rainfall a year. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences doubt that fragile desert vegetation...
Such a scenario, Vidal admits, is impossible. "You can't write -how to put it discreetly?-adventurous books like Julian and Myra Breckinridge and then make the trip to Pennsylvania Avenue...
...section of lawn separated from the White House by this new extension of Pennsylvania Avenue is now known as Lafayette Park, at whose center stands not a statue of Lafayette-that would be too logical-but one of Andrew Jackson astride his horse. I was pleased to see that the Capitol is at last finished...