Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assist you in filling out forms is the Freshman Task Force. These are bright, energetic young people who will remind you of the bouncy cast of the Frosted Mini-Wheats commercials. You may think, "What lovely people, giving up large chunks of their time to assist poor confused freshmen. Someday I'll be like that, too." Well, you'll have to wait in line, sport. These folks are paid...
...Hyatt Brown, 42. While he plotted the coup that would make him speaker of the Florida house of representatives, Brown kept a clipping of the Israeli lightning raid on Entebbe pinned to his office wall to remind him of the value of surprise. Surprise he did. While the incumbent speaker and supporters were feasting at a dinner, Brown's cohorts, known as "the dirty dozen," collected legislators' signatures on a petition that changed the house's voting rules and enabled Brown to call for an immediate vote that gave him the gavel. Since then the Republican, a former insurance salesman...
...first woman mayor, dresses with a certain flair in Lexington, but sighs that back home in Madisonville she cannot wear her chic sandals on business calls. She feels that conventional pumps will help encourage citizens to take her seriously. Joe Viens remembers a voter who came in to remind the mayor of his campaign support, then presented a traffic ticket to be fixed. Viens said sorry, the only way he could help would be to pay the fine out of his own pocket. "Good," said the man, "you do that." A local eccentric dropped into Doutrich's office, chatted...
...week at a rally in Cincinnati's Fountain Square. As the portly Republican Congressman from Illinois stepped to the rostrum, the crowd of 3,500 chanted: "Life! Life! Life!" Elderly women wearing white gloves held up red roses. Men lifted up small children. "We're here to remind America of its soul," declared the silver-haired Hyde. "Religious ideals have always guided our country." When he was done speaking, members of the audience began another cadenced cheer: "We're for life, and we couldn't be prouder. Get a little closer, and we'll yell...
Enough oil was wasted by all involved during World War II in Europe alone that might have lasted all of us another hundred years. Do I have to remind anyone whose country started that mess...