Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, the President had defenders among the mayors. Said Moon Landrieu of New Orleans: "The Administration gives out good vibes. It's moving as rapidly as possible." Added Tom Bradley of Los Angeles: "The fact that in ten months the world hasn't been turned upside down should not be disappointing. Things don't happen that fast in Washington...
Neither Ray nor anyone else can solve another problem: population growth. Looking anxiously ahead, Tom McCall, then Governor of Oregon, declared in 1971: "Please come and visit us again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't come and live here." Surprisingly, the migration to the Northwest is still a trickle compared with the tide flowing to the Sunbelt, but more and more Americans, lured by the natural beauty and the way of life it fosters, are arriving. The populations of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have increased 15% during the past ten years (Florida rose 45%) and are expected...
...Using the massive collection of Brady material gathered by the late Frederick Hill Meserve, the editors assemble Brady's portraits of the great (including several haunting shots of a careworn Lincoln), of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature and the theater, and of such strange creatures as Tom Thumb (an enchanting series documents the famous midget's wedding) and Siamese Twins Chang and Eng. Brady's crystalline landscape shots capture the building of monuments in Washington and New York. The introduction and running commentaries not only chronicle Brady's techniques and career-they also illustrate...
Sometimes ABC stars even do more than that. As Happy Days grows older the relationship between the bad boy hero Fonz and the good boy hero Richie (Ron Howard) is becoming TV's own pop version of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. John Ritter of Three's Company has managed to make a popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters...
...Minutemen built up a lead in the lighter weights, but two consecutive victories by co-captains Tom Bixby and Jim Corcoran narrowed the gap and turned the tide in favor of the Crimson grapplers...