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Just as on the mainland, TV makes celebrities. The elastic, expressive face of English Teacher David Lommen, who comes from Minot, N. Dak.., made him famous within a week. Lommen had been told that Polynesian children could not learn to distinguish the th and z sounds of English. He accepted the challenge. Now when he takes a walk, he is sometimes followed by kids dancing after him and hissing...
...version of the G.O.P. platform's farm plank. Getting frantic, North Dakota's Senator Milton Young and South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt insisted that Goldwater draft at least one major farm-policy statement, for delivery Sept. 19, at the National Plowing Contest near Casselton, N. Dak. Goldwater showed up and spoke, but said little of substantial value; Young, who had seen an advance text, refused to sit on the platform with Goldwater, has since declined to campaign...
...enough to allay farmers' fears, so Goldwater summoned G.O.P. leaders from eleven farm states to a secret strategy meeting at Des Moines' Municipal Airport. He listened to their views for nearly an hour. A few days later, at the National Corn-Picking Contest at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Barry told some 20,000 farm folk: "You and I and all good Americans, we all want a free and prosperous American agriculture, with a minimum of federal controls and intervention. That is the direction in which we must move-forward, toward freedom and progress." To accomplish this, he said...
...make the Gospel message a life-changing reality in men's hearts. The American Lutheran Church thinks it may have found one solution in its "Faith in Life Dialogue," a week-long experiment that concluded last week in the neighboring towns of Fargo (pop. 50,500), N. Dak., and Moorhead (23,000), Minn. The venture, says Methodist Church Historian Franklin Littell of Chicago Theological Seminary, is "the most important thing of its kind to occur in America...
Born. To Mary Ann Fischer, 31, mother of the first U.S. quintuplets to survive infancy; and Andrew Fischer, 39, Aberdeen, S. Dak., shipping clerk: their eleventh child, ninth daughter: in Aberdeen. Weight...