Word: williams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allocation formulas failed to allow for the rapid population growth in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, and so even oil-producing Texas was afflicted with panic buying. Governor William P. Clements Jr. imposed mandatory rules on gas sales in the counties embracing those three cities, including odd-even sale days...
...without success last week to find someone who could speak for the owner-drivers in their states. In Minnesota, Governor Al Quie gave up, declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. About 100 representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman of the shaky Independent Truckers Unity Coalition. But many of them walked out in anger over Hill's insistence on a 10% rate increase and his highhanded tactics. Explained Ted Brooks, who represents Maryland independents: "We feel that holding out for 10% is unfair to the public...
Helstoski had argued that the bribery charges against him should be thrown out. Though Justice William Brennan agreed, the rest of the court would not go that far. The Government can still show that Helstoski promised to introduce bills...
...Proust and Leon Edel's James are the chief prizes, but there are many other jewels, including Michael Holroyd on Lytton Strachey, Francis Steegmuller on Cocteau and Quentin Bell on Virginia Woolf. Moreover, the past year has brought a host of distinguished and bestselling additions to the collection: William Manchester island-hopping with Douglas MacArthur, Edmund Morris galloping up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt and Barbara Tuchman wading through the wars and devastations of the 14th century with the Baron Enguerrand de Coucy. No wonder Holroyd exults: "Biography has come...
Besides being given to wiping away their past, many people, particularly writers, are prone to fabrication. Mark Twain could not resist a good story about himself, even if he had to make it up; William Butler Yeats dressed in colorful myths; and George Bernard Shaw found simple facts insufficiently expressive...