Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Light Hand. Like many a success ful publisher, gangling, Dakota-born Phil Graham never covered a news sto ry. A lawyer by training and a wheeler-dealer by instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...world 50 years ago by beating the great Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, thus ending forever Britain's domination of the game. It is a dainty, tidy course, only 6,870 yds. long, but for the Open the U.S. Golf Association turned it into something resembling the South Dakota Badlands...
...DIVIDE EACH STATE INTO ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, similar to congressional districts, with one electoral vote apiece. Under a plan sponsored by South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, each state in addition would have two statewide electoral votes. His plan, says Mundt, would diminish "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups." Among the objections: state legislatures would be tempted to gerrymander electoral districts...
...other two amendments made somewhat more headway. No. 1 passed eleven legislatures: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming. Amendment No. 2 passed twelve: Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming...
...South Dakota...