Word: texan
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Died. Martin Dies, 71, progenitor of the old House Un-American Activities Committee and chairman during its first six stormy years; of an apparent heart attack; in Lufkin, Texas. A burly Texan first elected to Congress in 1930, Dies won approval for the creation of HUAC in 1938 to "investigate subversion and un-American propaganda." In tempestuous, headline-making public hearings, Dies attacked all manner of supposed subversives, including Communists, fascists, atheists, advocates of nudism, and New Dealers, whom he characterized as "an army of radical associates and crackpots." Dies' inquisitorial style set a pattern that the committee followed...
Dallas-Fort Worth, which will open next fall, uses the same principle-on a Texan scale. Four semicircular terminals stand on opposite sides of a central access road and are linked by an automated intraterminal transit system, a "horizontal elevator" capable of carrying 8,000 people an hour. Eventually, as air traffic increases, the $700 million airport will expand by building nine more identical buildings with a grand total of 234 gates-enough to handle 60 million passengers a year, or the projected needs to the year...
...employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got, tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriated by the regents; last year. Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because the paper let out a fact the administration had tried to keep secret--that it had incurred...
...employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriate by the regents: last year, Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because the paper let out a fact the administration had tried to keep secret--that it had incurred...
McGovern's reception at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Minneapolis was equally frosty. He tried to stir some populist embers by attacking Renegade Democrat John Connally. Noting that the Texan had been searching for a villa in Europe, McGovern remarked: "That's where the oil-depletion money goes." He even assailed Connally's $300 suits-an ambiguous campaign issue. While it is true that McGovern pays less than $200 for his suits, his running mate wears Pierre Cardin suits and has been on the best-dressed list...