Word: utes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMMISSION. Under the 1974 law, an eight-member Federal Election Commission was set up to oversee and enforce its provisions. The court ordered that the commission be dissolved in 30 days unless all of its members were appointed by the President, instead of just two under the present stat ute. The other six are four members appointed by Congress, plus the Secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House. There was the rub. According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number...
...tender, graceful fable about a Ute boy who comes finally to a hard-won maturity. As a child, Tom Black Bull lived in the Colorado mountains with his parents. When they died, he went to school on the Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
...moral arguments. His view was that if you use moral arguments, "it implies that you're better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along these lines, he capped his preamble with the following gem, which I q?ute nearly verbatim: "Samuel Johnson once said that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. I'd like to change that to 'Morality is the last refuge of a scoundrel...
NEARLY a decade ago, a slim, crew-cut Navy test pilot clambered into a tiny space capsule named Freedom 7 and was hurled by a Redstone rocket into a high, arcing 302-mile flight over the Atlantic. For the U.S., that brief, 15-min-ute suborbital ride began the era of manned space flight. Next week, his lean body practically unchanged by the passage of years, the same pioneering astronaut will command NASA's fourth manned assault on the moon. At the age of 47, Captain Alan B. Shepard Jr. is the oldest American* ever to soar into space...