Word: uhler
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...voters approved it last March. Once the dust settles, if it does, from Proposition 13, the Tax-Limitation Committee will introduce an amendment in the California legislature aimed at tying state spending increases to the growth in average personal income. "We are not quixotic," contends Sacramento Lawyer Lewis Uhler, president of the committee. "We see overall tax limitation as the power of the people to shape our society and our destiny. This is going to be a long, tough, no-nonsense battle...
Died. Edward Uhler Condon, 72, the distinguished nuclear physicist who became a target of postwar Red-baiters; of heart disease; in Boulder, Colo. Condon's experiments in 1943 on the separation of U-235 were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. In 1945 he was named head of the National Bureau of Standards. Three years later, despite loyalty clearances by two Government agencies, he was branded "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The specific charge-a flimsy one-was that Condon had associated socially with Eastern European...