Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swallows come back to Capistrano to signal the arrival of spring. Hinckley, Ohio, has something that may not be better but certainly is different: the annual return of the buzzards. The great birds like to roost in trees in the parks just outside town, and since 1885 the local citizens have made the best of the situation. Buzzard Day is March 15. On the following Sunday, the Chamber of Commerce celebrates by holding a breakfast of sausages and pancakes. Boy Scouts hawk buzzard T shirts and everybody tells birdbrained jokes...
...Suddenly Park Ranger Bud Burger, peering through high-powered binoculars, spotted a distinctive shape soaring high over a snow-covered field. Moments later, a buzzard glided to a perch in a tall tree about a mile away. There was jubilation among the onlookers. If the buzzards had come to Hinckley, could spring be far behind...
...storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings, 'Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage...
...least the sales slump is no longer getting deeper with every report. That seems a rather frail reed on which to base any optimism, and auto dealers put little trust in it. At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas two weeks ago, John S. Hinckley, an Ogden, Utah, Dodge dealer and NADA president, assailed contradictory statements by Government leaders and oil executives about the severity of fuel shortages. The widespread public confusion created by these statements, he said, "can very easily drive this nation into a massive depression." Hinckley even hinted at a conspiracy theory to explain...
...clean-cut, well-dressed crowd, heavy with zealous young. In a vote that was never in doubt, they "sustained" Prophet Lee in his selection. There was talk of expansion, modernization, more efficient administration, but little talk of change. "Lee is the man of the hour," said Apostle Gordon Hinckley, 62, one of his closest associates. "But instead of saying he will innovate, I would say he will change the way of implementing those principles that have been with us from the earliest days of the church...