Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Riley (D) Strom Thurmond (R) South Dakota William J. Janklow (R) Larry Pressler (R) Tennessee Lamar Alexander (R) Howard H. Baker Jr. (R) Texas Too Close to Call Too Close to Call Utah Vermont Richard A. Snelling (R) Virginia Too Close to Call Washington West Virginia Jennings Randolph (D) Wisconsin Lee Sherman Dreyfus (R) Wyoming Ed Herschler (D) Not Yet Reported
...Mary in the kitchen. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal talked down the value of the dollar last year -a cheap dollar was supposed to stimulate exports. Carter might have foreseen that as the dollar fell, prices of imports would rise, lifting with them the prices of similar domestic products, from Wisconsin gorgonzola to Detroit subcompacts. Budget Chief James Mclntyre last January submitted a fiscal 1979 budget that projected a $61 billion deficit, even though the country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have recognized that this would be grossly inflationary-and that leaders of business and labor...
...full-time farmer in 1951 after two years at Moorhead (Minn.) State University. The Benedict family, originally from France (the first known ancestor came to colonial America after a stopover in England in the early 1700s), has been farming since Pat's great-grandfather moved to Minnesota from Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War. During the Depression the homestead shrank from 1,000 acres to 400 and father Edwin had to hunt partridges to help feed the family. But post-World War II prosperity enabled Edwin to buy another 300 acres when Pat began farming with...
Houden began college at Wellesley in 1968 and took seven years off before returning as a junior to the University of Wisconsin. She labels herself a feminist, and she, too, sees a conflict between business ethics and feminist principles...
Betty Ford's debut is the most recent in a string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair transplants for Frank Sinatra, Roy Clark and Strom Thurmond, a facelift for Jackie Gleason, face and breast architectural work for Cher, an eyelift, facelift and breast reduction for Phyllis Diller, and there is a growing national tendency to regard cosmetic surgery as a badge of sophistication, rather than of vanity...