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Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

...Regan and Jim Kilkowski were both honorable mention. All three, especially Regan, have a good chance to be selected again. And if Ince doesn't get chosen, it will be like naming the 15 best members of Our Gang ("Little Rascals," to some of us) and leaving out Alfalfa...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

...support, the stories went, it was Thurmond who had final clearance on Richard Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew, during the Republican Convention in Miami. Nixon recently alluded to his Dixie friend with some of his newly discovered humor. It was delivered at a dinner of the Alfalfa Club, a group of top businessmen, professionals and Government officials that starts off the term of a new President by putting forward, as a joke, their own choice (this year's joke: Harold Stassen) The way to pick a running mate, Nixon said, was to collect recommendations from friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's New Humor (Cont'd) | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...brother tonight and telling him to give you the green light." By this time, Ike was ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired to plan two classroom buildings and three dormitories. Tuition and board were pegged at $1,000 for each 14-week trimester, $600 for commuting students, and the officials set a goal of 1,000 students overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Growing Importance of Ike U. | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...some country air. The Detroit schoolteacher took over the professor's Manhattan flat; the farmer got the schoolteacher's house outside Detroit; and the professor and his family spent their summer on the Ohio farm, their only obligation being to shoo an occasional sheep out of the alfalfa field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations: There's No Place Like Someone Else's Home | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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