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Born in Rapid City, S. Dak., Hartmann was raised in Niagara Falls and California, where his family moved when he was nine in hopes that a warmer climate would end his repeated bouts with pneumonia. After he graduated from Stanford University in 1938, a globe-trotting student tour of Japan, China and Europe whetted his interest in journalism, and he joined the Los Angeles Times to cover the police and local courts. In 1954 he was made chief of the newspaper's first full-time Washington bureau and soon became one of then Vice President Nixon's favorite...
...corrals from Mineral Wells, Texas, to Deadwood, S. Dak., the basic ingredients of the community-organized rodeo have not changed. Bareback bronc and brahma bull riding, the meanest rodeo events, still delight the fans and break the bones of contestants. Shot into the arena on the back of an insanely bucking bull or bronc, the rider must stay aboard for eight frantic seconds, holding on by his spurs and a rope cinch that he is allowed to grasp with only one hand. If the cowboy survives the frenzied ride, two judges score his effort for degree of difficulty and quality...
...said to have mastered it in both theory and felt-table practice. Recently, while escorting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to San Clemente to meet with President Nixon, Kissinger stopped off en route to visit the nuclear-missile installation at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak. There, 150 Minuteman missiles stand at the ready beneath their giant manhole covers, and Kissinger, who as a negotiator handles Minuteman, Polaris and Poseidon missiles like poker chips, had a request: might...
...based on civil service, and pushed through plans for the first degree-granting medical school in a state whose ratio of one doctor for every 1,100 people is the nation's poorest. Kneip was raised in Elkton, S. Dak., built a dairy-equipment business and then entered politics, winning the first of three terms in the state senate in 1964. First elected Governor in 1970, the folksy, breezy politician is favored for a third term in November...
Martin Olav Sabo, 36. As the Democratic-Farmer-Labor speaker of Minnesota's house, Sabo has political power second only to that of Governor Anderson. Sabo grew up in Alkabo, N. Dak., worked his way through Augsburg College in Minneapolis, ran for the state legislature only a year after graduating. He won again and again, each time carrying on old-fashioned doorbell-ringing campaigns. In 1969 he was elected minority leader, became house speaker when the D.F.L. won the house four years later. He calls himself "a pragmatic liberal"; as speaker, he manages rather than initiates bills...