Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force Academy as a member of a review committee, she was denied the hospitality of the officers' mess at dinner because of her sex. She promptly stamped off campus rather than eat with the officers' wives.) But the overriding issue, in the view of the Daily Texan, the student paper, was not Rogers' qualifications but the high-handedness of the regents and the "need for academic freedom" on campus...
...While on leave, he married a Texas model, Beryl Ann; they have three children. Mustered out as a major at 24, Bentsen was elected the youngest county judge in Texas. In 1948, he ran successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the youngest member. He impressed a fellow Texan, Speaker Sam Rayburn, who included Bentsen in his after-hours bourbon-and-strategy sessions. Even so, Bentsen did not make much of a mark in the House-with the exception of a speech he now regrets. During the Korean War, he urged that atomic bombs be dropped on the North...
...soporific. "He dreams dreams but doesn't chase rainbows," was an early campaign slogan. The result is a rather colorless campaign, though one that exudes competence. Bentsen seems all but devoid of regional or personal quirks. His urbane performance gives no clues that he is a Texan. Understated and restrained, he manages to conceal much of the inner man from public view. Says a longtime associate: "Bentsen is one of the hardest people in public life to get to know." Adds Calvin Guest, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party: "The problem is to communicate his great leadership ability. Groups...
...divers and keeping Stavanger almost as quiet and staid as ever. Because of Norwegian taxes, a Toyota shipped from Japan costs $9,500, as much as a fully equipped Cadillac in the U.S. Cigarettes are $1.50 a pack, and groceries are double U.S. prices. Don Greenlee, 47, a Texan production superintendent for Phillips at Ekofisk, takes the prices in stride. Says he: "It costs more to live here, but there are not as many things to spend your money on. Financially, we probably make out a bit better...
...books conclusively answers the lingering Watergate question: How could so many clever men around Nixon profess to believe him long after most of the press and public found his story incredible and his claims of protecting the presidency a self-serving fraud? Breslin, perhaps unfairly, contends that Texan Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's constitutional expert, simply learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt as he seemed...