Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial star is Sally Quinn, who with sharp eyes and a mischievous ear is expert at waylaying visiting notables. (The Times had in Charlotte Curtis a reporter with a wicked gift for deadpan reporting of society's banalities, but instead put her in charge of the increasingly cumbersome Op-Ed page...
...flip side of Manfred Mann's "The Mighty Quinn": "The Pathetic Pygmy...
...Veteran Gale McGee in Wyoming, Tax Lawyer Orrin Hatch over Frank Moss in Utah and former Navy Secretary John Chafee over Richard Lorber in Rhode Island. Among the Democrats who gained Republican seats: Tucson Attorney Dennis DeConcmi over Sam Steiger in Arizona, Congressman Spark Matsunaga over former Governor William Quinn in Hawaii, Congressman Paul Sarbanes over Incumbent Glenn Beall in Maryland and Omaha Mayor Edward Zorinsky over John McCollister in Nebraska. Some of the most intriguing races that produced new faces...
...Quinn says he warned Sohio "as long ago as mid-1975" that it might not be welcome at Long Beach. Sohio claims that when the pipeline was planned, it did not believe there would be any surplus in California that would have to be piped East. The unexpected West Coast glut-about 600,000 bbl. per day-arose, says Sohio, because of increased energy conservation and the lower fuel consumption that resulted from the recession. Yet others insist that the glut problem cannot be a surprise to the company. Says O.K. ("Easy") Gilbreth, director of Alaska's division...
Sohio's oil could be shipped to Japan and swapped for Middle East crude that would be diverted across the Atlantic to East Coast ports. Such a swap, in an industry that operates on a global scale, would not be unusual, and California's Quinn says it deserves "serious consideration." But the main reason for building the pipeline, after all, was to reduce initially the nation's reliance on foreign oil by about 7%, or 1.2 million bbl. per day, and for that reason Congress expressly prohibited the foreign sale of any Alaskan crude...