Word: wisconsin
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Only three of the 21 Democrats are conservative Southerners, and none is an obstructionist reactionary. The liberals are led by tough, testy Texan Jack Brooks, 51, who came to the House at 30 as a protege of Lyndon Johnson. Wisconsin's able Robert W. Kastenmeier, 50, chairs the subcommittee dealing with civil liberties, and California's Don Edwards, 59, was once the chairman of the ultraliberal Americans for Democratic Action. The A.D.A. rated eleven of the committee's Democrats 81% or higher on their 1973 voting record...
...Michigan 39,602 Columbia University 25,508 Vanderbilt University 24,000 Emory University 20,000 Williams College 17,413 Swarthmore College 17,142 Pomona College 15,000 Tulane University 13,500 University of Illinois 11,000 Rochester Institute of Technology 10,000 University of Virginia 9,937 University of Wisconsin 8,400 Brown University 5,200 Clark University 4,000 University of Pennsylvania 1,600 Syracuse University 800 University of North Carolina...
...Minnesota, 14-10-4, and Wisconsin...
That provision was opposed not only by oil-state Senators like Louisiana's Russell Long but also by many liberals who considered the plan unworkable. The environmentalists, led by Wisconsin Democrat Gay lord Nelson, were aghast at another provision that would have delayed until 1979 the imposition of "clean air" standards for factories and power plants that are shifting from oil to coal. All sides felt freer to drop or at least delay the bill because of the easing of oil supplies. Said Nelson: "We are not in an emergency situation right...
...without much more than a fleeting reference to the canons of 18th and 19th century mainstream art, should now have lost their practical use and migrated to the museums. History cautions us not to think of pre-industrial America as a lost paradise; albums of 19th century photos like Wisconsin Death Trip remind us how brutish, crazed and short life could be in America then. But the folk art gathered in this show does counterbalance the pessimistic view with its vitality and awkward graces...