Word: nationalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most prominent places to be from during the '60s were North Dakota, which lost 2.3% of its population, South Dakota, which lost 2.1% and West Virginia, which lost 6.2%. A favorite place to go was still California, the last continental stop in the American migration, which became the nation's most populous state, with 19,953,134 residents. In the final 1970 census figures, announced last week, California surpassed New York by 1.7 million, thus gaining five new seats in the House while New York loses...
...Senator was William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat. He has led some lonely fights in the past, but none seemed as desperate as his campaign against the SST. The nation has already spent $800 million on the plane; last year, when Proxmire made a similar attempt to cut off the flow of money, he was defeated 58 to 22. But for the past eight months, he has been joined by a sizable citizens' army of environmentalists, including members of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wilderness Society...
...Nixon Administration's epidemic of exits has apparently infected the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. Only 17 months ago Egeberg was widely viewed as a man who could heal the wounds left by the White House's rejection of Dr. John Knowles, the controversial Bostonian who was originally slated to get the job. But last week all signs indicated that Egeberg will be ousted from his key post in the Health, Education and Welfare Department some time around the first of the year...
...possible successor, Dr. Neil Solomon, a 38-year-old Democrat who heads Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Solomon not only turned down the job, but he went out of his way to praise Egeberg. "Dr. Egeberg," he said, "is well qualified to lead the nation in this field if the Administration will only give him adequate support." Others mentioned for the post are Dr. Vernon Wilson, director of HEW's Health Services and Mental Health Administration, and Dr. Charles Edwards, head of the Food and Drug Administration...
...changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress, whether liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, from working effectively to represent the will of the electorate...