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...stimulus money, was accused of cheating on his wife and lost control of the legislature, having his vetoes overridden more times than any other Nevada governor. Budget cuts have closed the only hospital cancer wing for uninsured patients. "We're on the bottom of every bad list," says Steven Horsford, majority leader of the Nevada senate and de facto head of Nevada's government, who tried and failed to enact a corporate income tax. The state is so desperate, the legislature even considered a state lottery. Which is about as good a revenue plan in Nevada as opening a literary...
...Cubans clearly had lost favor on the island. When a noon crowd watching the police station in Grenville saw 82nd Airborne officers arrive with Godwin Horsford, a well-known Coard supporter, in their custody, the spectators booed Horsford and shouted, "Cuban! Cuban!" Ermyn Campbell, who lived next door to the Cuban embassy in St. George's, recalled that "the Cubans were darling neighbors, very polite. But the U.S. is the best thing for us now. Things were coming so unstuck that I'm sure we were just snatched in time from the devil's own mouth...
...found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...
...sandstorms. Cracked one bare-chested trooper: "To qualify as a royal marine, all you have to do is be able to drink 19 Cokes daily." British and Kuwaiti officers shuttled companionably between neon-bright Kuwait City and the front in Sheik-supplied Cadillacs and Chryslers. Declared Brigadier General Derek Horsford, Britain's infantry commander: "Wherever my troops have gone here, they have been clapped and cheered -including...
...Lawrence Scientific School closed its doors and passed out of existence. But in its 60-year life span, Abbott Lawrence's dream left an impression on United States scientific and educational practices that still remains. Professor Eben Norton Horsford gave the first course offered by the Lawrence Scientific School, and in keeping with the School's "practical" air, he also manufactured the panacea which the above handbill advertises. His acid phosphate, along with other products, was so successful that he resigned in 1863 to devote himself entirely to manufacturing. In honor of his endowed chair, the Rumford Professorship, Horsford named...