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HURON COLLEGE (S.Dak.) Hubert H. Humphrey, D.C.L., president, Humphrey Drug Store, Huron, S. Dak. An articulate champion and fighter for the cause of expressing the rights of the common...
Nights & Days. Much more than spray guns went into Lawrence's new-look campaign. Braniff was the first U.S. airline to put into operation the relatively small short-run jet aircraft -in Braniff's case the BAC One-Eleven -providing places like Sioux Falls, S. Dak., with commercial jet service for the first time. Needing only a 48% passenger load for Braniff to break even, the 63-seat BAG One-Eleven has averaged 61.1%. In addition, Lawrence put Braniff's four-engine Boeing jets on a new schedule of daytime flying and nighttime maintenance. As a result...
...became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantánamo; of cancer; in Fargo, N. Dak...
...mine is at Lead (rhymes with bleed), S. Dak., and it is the nation's biggest, most consistently profitable pot of gold. Last year its owner, San Francisco's Homestake Mining Co., extracted a record 628,259 oz. of gold bullion, more than one-third of total U.S. production, sold it to the U.S. Treasury for $22 million at a profit...
Born of Welsh parentage in Hot Springs, S. Dak., Thomas was preoccupied from childhood with the notion of "doing something for humanity." This, he says, led him to major in psychology at the University of Nebraska, then to a job as a high school counselor in Oregon. "I was tremendously successful in my field," he confesses. He was at Stanford, working for a doctorate, when a voice teacher heard him sing in a university production. The teacher encouraged him to take voice lessons, and after four years of study Thomas decided to take the plunge. At the advanced (for opera...