Word: dak
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...small-town banker, Christopher was born in Scranton, N. Dak., 55 years ago. As a teenager, he migrated with his family to California, where he earned a law degree from Stanford. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, then joined the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. From the start of his legal career, Christopher was active in Democratic politics. He joined the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm...
...Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...
Sioux Falls, S. Dak...
Rapid City, S. Dak...
...secret medical problems of his women customers gradually unhinged him: "My mind was like the waiting room of a brothel." More often, though, passion is the least Elkin's people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave on his local business: "The Mister Softees are all melted. The Lord has beaten the Mister Softees back into yogurt cultures." And Elkin has been traveling progressively farther out; The Living End (1979) offers...