Word: bloomington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate at first sight. There was something about the set of their shoulders, the angle of their noses and the color of their Southern California tans that positively graveled the folks in Bloomington, Minn. Not to mention their mouths...
...Angeles Dodgers, champions of the National League, had barely arrived in Bloomington when they started bragging about what they were going to do to the American League's Minnesota Twins in the World Series. "Three or four clubs in our league could have won the pennant over there," said Dodger General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I don't think the competition from the Twins will be any tougher than it was from the Yankees when we beat them four straight in 1963." Now that was too much-even for Minnesota's mildmannered manager, Sam Mele. "Cracks like that...
STAN GATES Bloomington...
While the bishops may be concerned with the church's institutional needs, argues the Rev. Leroy Hodapp of the First Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ind., "the great mass of Methodists are totally indifferent to church union. If you were to poll the average congregation about the six-church consultation, half the members wouldn't know what you were talking about." According to the Rev. Albert Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Methodist Church, "the pulpit is far more interested than the pew"; yet other church observers feel that some ministers have been reluctant to talk up union...
...days later, when Johnson flew to Bloomington, Ill., for Stevenson's burial, Goldberg was invited to ride along with the presidential party on Air Force One. Again, during the flight from Washington and back, the two talked at length about the U.N. job. Again, the President did not ask the obvious question, but Goldberg got the drift. "I was very troubled," he said later. That night Johnson phoned the Justice at George Washington University Hospital, where Goldberg was visiting his ailing mother-in-law, and finally made the offer. Goldberg hedged, told the President that he did not think...