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...Grace Roderick says her daughter went to a non-Indian elementary school outside of Maine, when their family was traveling around the country. "What am I?" her daughter would ask after coming home from school...
...Grace Roderick, Pleasant Point's alcoholic counselor (and a former alcoholic) says, "A lot of the problem is the pills. If I take an alcoholic who is drunk to the hospital, the doctor will let him straighten out and when they let him go they won't prescribe 20 or 30 valiums, they'll prescribe 100 valiums. There are people who don't want any help, because they're addicted to these pills. It's a way for them to get these pills by coming to me." Valiums induce a state similar to drunkenness. "Every Indian who walks into that...
...There's no doubt we have a crisis upon us," declared James Thompson, the new Republican Governor of Illinois. "The President is to be congratulated for facing it." Agreed David Roderick, president of U.S. Steel: "He has laid it all on the line. Our industries, our jobs, our American way of life could be in jeopardy." After listening to Carter's Monday "sky is falling" speech, North Carolina's Democratic Governor James B. Hunt Jr. observed: "If anyone has any doubts of a crisis, they must be blind and deaf. That was the most carefully reasoned statement of an immense...
...President Carter designated still another boss as the nation's securities watchdog: Harold M. Williams, 49, the brilliant dean of U.C.L.A.'S Graduate School of Management and former chairman of Norton Simon Inc., the consumer-products conglomerate. After his expected confirmation by the Senate, Williams will replace Roderick M. Hills, chairman since 1975, who had told Carter that he wanted to leave by April...
...local real estate tax system by dropping the 4% discount offered to those who pay early. Tax delinquencies had reached nearly $37,000 last year-about 12% of this year's proposed $298,000 budget-and some thought the town could ill afford the discounts. Said Selectman Roderick Ross: "For years we've been giving away $6,000 and that's putting us in a hole...