Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Utah Salt Lake City
...sales slump is no longer getting deeper with every report. That seems a rather frail reed on which to base any optimism, and auto dealers put little trust in it. At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas two weeks ago, John S. Hinckley, an Ogden, Utah, Dodge dealer and NADA president, assailed contradictory statements by Government leaders and oil executives about the severity of fuel shortages. The widespread public confusion created by these statements, he said, "can very easily drive this nation into a massive depression." Hinckley even hinted at a conspiracy theory to explain the dramatic...
SYBIL H. CLAYS Granger, Utah...
Nothing was ordinary about Bernard DeVoto. Even his homeliness was spectacular, compounded of defiantly bulging eyes and a nose broadened in a baseball accident. Girls from Ogden, Utah, remembered him all their lives as "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Also the smartest...
Have effete Eastern intellectuals underestimated this whoop-it-up Westerner who often behaved, as his biographer admits, like "the illegitimate offspring of H.L. Mencken and Annie Oakley"? Wallace Stegner, novelist (The Big Rock Candy Mountain), Stanford professor, and a fellow native of Utah, concedes that DeVoto was often wrong as well as "spectacularly right." He was also an 'Implacable showoff" who "set world records for taking himself seriously." But yes, says Stegner, DeVoto has been low-rated, chiefly because he ran with no coterie, and in fact ran head down against most of the opinion makers...