Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the land. Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway-who is now Gerald Ford's campaign manager-declaimed that: "There's a feeling in this country that Teddy Roosevelt helped the Panamanians get their independence, negotiated the treaty, paid for it, conquered yellow fever and brought them their sole economic enterprise. There's the feeling that the canal is enormously valuable, that we paid for it, and it's ours." More than one-third of the Senate-enough to block ratification of a new treaty -also opposes any change in the old relationship. President Ford issued...
...Democrat Hugh Carey was an obscure politician before his election as New York's Governor last year, his oilman brother Edward was almost invisible. Yet had it not been for Edward, Hugh Carey might not be in office at all. As the secretive, quietly ambitious chief and sole owner of the sprawling Carey Energy Corp., Edward Michael Carey bankrolled his brother's campaign to the tune of $1 million...
...Boston chapter of Amnesty was founded only recently but has already begun to attract support. White is the sole employee, and runs the operation from her home in Boston. She comments that "the Boston area is one of the most fertile grounds for Amnesty in the whole country, with so many liberal-minded students and others." An Amnesty-sponsored rally in Lowell Lecture Hall last spring drew a fair crowd for exam period, and featured a speech by George Wald, the Biology professor-cum-political activist. White would like to see Amnesty "grow by leaps and bounds" on the east...
...possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however, the sale of marijuana remains a crime...
...Press-Telegram (combined circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have their own group, Employees for Better Working Conditions, designated as the paper's sole bargaining unit. An NLRB election last month was Abruptly canceled when the Guild withdrew from the running. Says Guild Spokesman Dick Pattison: "It didn't make much sense for us to be on the ballot when the only ones voting would be the strikebreakers...