Word: wilding
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Died. Velma ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston, 65, redoubtable leader of the campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros...
However, Harvard's personnel office is not noted for taking wild risks, and the five-week campaign that followed the NLRB's decision was a masterpiece of political maneuvering. Steiner and Daniel Cantor, director of personnel administration, orchestrated a campaign that included frequent meetings with Med Area workers and the distribution of 12 pamphlets questioning the motives and effectiveness of District 65. While Leslie A. Sullivan, chief organizer for District 65, characterized the University's efforts as "scare tactics," Steiner holds that the entire effort was aimed at informing, rather than indoctrinating the workers, and that Harvard at all times...
...dish, but the big play was donated by little-used outfielder Bobby Jenkins. The speedy Jenkins, yet another one of Park's adept freshmen, singled as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and eventually scored what proved to be the winning run when he scampered homeward on a wild pitch. He was met at the plate by a furious bear hug from Park...
...least some professors are exercised about public apathy. Says Dr. Jim Ranchino, a political scientist at Arkansas' Ouachita Baptist University: "Our society has gone wild. Nobody has convinced the American people that we have any serious problems. There is no direction, no planning. People are living like tomorrow is going to be just like today. But it is not going...
Mopeds are the near-beer of the motorcycle world. They are more than bicycles but less-far less-than the roaring machines straddled by Marlon Brando in The Wild One and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider; no self-respecting Hell's Angel would be caught dead on one. Yet mopeds (from motorized-bicycle-plus-pedals) are coming on like Scotch after Repeal...