Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shame that the speed skaters will have no facility to return to? The only 400-meter U.S. Olympic rink was closed last month by the Wisconsin State Fair Park Board. This rink is located near Milwaukee, where Peter Mueller and Sheila Young trained to represent the U.S. Too bad America can't spend some money to keep the rink and the sport going...
...chief executive" with two other officials: Roy Anderson, vice chairman for finance and administration, and Lawrence O. Kitchen, president. While briefly in charge, Haack said, his top priority will be to refinance Lockheed's debt, now about $600 million. That may be difficult; Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin is planning to introduce legislation demanding a speedup in Lockheed's repayment of the Government-guaranteed portion of its debt...
...fared considerably better. Skating a hard, high-spirited program with gusto, Colleen O'Connor, 24, and Jim Millns, 27, won a bronze medal in ice dancing. In speed skating, a University of Wisconsin music student, Dan Immerfall, 20, picking up where Sheila Young had left off the week before, won an unexpected bronze in the 500-meter sprint...
...Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire angrily declared that Coleman "has decided to place the profits of a foreign airline ahead of the health of Americans living around Kennedy and Dulles airports." Congressional or court action would be necessary to keep the jet out of Dulles, a federal facility, but New York's Governor Hugh Carey has veto power over what happens at Kennedy, and he has declared his flat opposition to the Concorde...
...Wisconsin Republican Robert Kasten could take no more. Before his colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee last week, he angrily addressed Chairman Otis Pike, a Democrat from New York. "Do something," he demanded, to stanch the leaks that were discrediting the committee with its friends in Congress as well as its foes in the Administration. With an irate glare, Pike shot back: "What do you recommend? Lie detector tests? I do not know where the leaks have come from...