Word: sutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many states, the defeat of local school-bond issues is directly attributable to "supermajority" laws that require more than a simple majority of yes votes for approval. Those laws are now under heavy attack. Judge John Hauck, of California's Sutter County Superior Court, has ordered the certification of a $4.75 million school-bond issue that was approved by only 57% of the voters of Yuba City-even though the state constitution requires a 66⅔% yes vote. The need for approval by any more than a simple majority, he ruled, violates the federal constitutional guarantee of equal protection...
...manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...
...away as Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though he was caught in the very act of writing "To a Waterfowl...
...high as heavyweight during the regular season, but he pared himself down to 147 for the tournament. He defeated three consecutive opponents-Don Yocum of Maryland 5-0 in overtime, Earl Rotundi of Temple 6-0, and Bob Capagrossi of Cornell 3-1-before Bloomsberg State's Bill Sutter stopped him 40 in the finals...
...said that he thought Sutter, who was three times high school champion of New York State, was the best wrestler in the tournament. Bloomsberg, a small college in Pennsylvania, entered six men in the Easterns; two besides Sutter won championships...