Word: southerner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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TRADE. President Nixon had proposed, and the House had passed, new restrictions on textile imports, partly to repay such Southern states as North and South Carolina for support in his election to the presidency. But a band of liberal Senators, led by Oklahoma Democrat Fred Harris and Republicans Charles Percy of Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into...
...Howard Hughes. They were not alone in their concern; employees chose up sides and wondered who would pay them. State, county and city officials audibly fretted about licensing and other legal problems and possible losses of revenue. In fact, until the whole affair was settled, a substantial part of southern Nevada's economy faced financial chaos...
Faller decisioned his Virginia and Franklin and Marshall foes by close margins, but in between these two bouts he overwhelmed Bill Hobson of William and Mary, 7-2. Hobson was a three-time Virginia high school champion and last year's Southern Conference champion. He suffered his first defeat in over three years...
...rock was only lukewarm when it was picked up in a field near the southern Australia town of Murchison last year. By last week, it had become the hottest sensation in the scientific world. After carefully examining a chunk of the meteorite, NASA scientists reported that it contains the strongest evidence ever found that the chemical precursors of life can evolve elsewhere in the universe...
...Against Southern Cat, a team that Stanford had not beaten in twelve years, Plunkett completed a remarkable 61% of his passes to down the Spartans 24-14. Said U.S.C. Coach John McKay afterward, "Plunkett is not just a drop-back passer. He can roll out, run when he's in trouble, and get rid of the ball with guys hanging all over...