Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success in California of Proposition 13, which he cosponsored. His appearance was part of a drive to obtain the 266,000 signatures needed by this week to get a tax-cut referendum on Michigan's November ballot. The proposition, sponsored by Robert Tisch, the drainage commissioner of rural Shiawassee County in central Michigan, would cut property assessments in half, hold future increases to 2.5% a year, and permit the state income tax, now 4.6%, to rise no more than one percentage point...
Miller also had a strong supporter in Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, an acquaintance from days when Blumenthal was running Bendix Corp. An interview with Carter, who had met him briefly four times before, clinched the job for Miller. It seems fitting that two self-confident businessmen from rural backgrounds, who had initially sought success by going to military academies and who styled themselves economic moderates and social liberals, should hit it off. Miller faced a tough grilling by the Senate Banking Committee about bribes paid by Textron to spur sales of its Bell helicopters in Iran. His cool, precise...
...beginning of the war, the killings of white missionaries had seemed, in most cases, to be merely part of the prevailing violence. The latest rash of murders suggests that the guerrillas are now killing missionaries in an effort to create panic among Rhodesia's remaining whites, particularly in rural areas. Since whites are now leaving the country at the rate of 1,000 a month, that brutal plan may be having some success...
...slogans (samples: CARTER GO HOME! and PANAMA SI! CARTER NO!) from walls. But by the time that Air Force One landed at Tocumen International Airport, Torrijos' troops had chased the antitreaty students into hiding, and the government had brought thousands of supporters into Panama City, including peasants from rural provinces and Indians from the San Blas Islands. Several hundred schoolchildren, wearing yellow and brown uniforms, roared, "Viva Jimmy! Viva Omar!"as Carter embraced Torrijos on a flower-strewn red carpet. Later Carter told the crowd at the signing ceremony: "We, the people of the U.S., and you, the people...
...minutes, making up the story as he went along. It was about a creature in Russia that set upon other animals. "The impact was tremendous," he recalls. "Then and there I decided to give up my job and write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass., to operate the local Y.W.C.A. so that he could write. Two unpublished novels and five years later, O'Callahan found that his prime talent was for telling stories aloud. He found it in a manner any parent might envy: entertaining his own children, Teddy and Laura...