Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later, even calm old Walter George thought that Secretary Benson had "lost his usefulness...
...drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
...dream begins to come true. The plane in the dream was a Dakota; the air marshal (Michael Redgrave) is assigned a Dakota (DC-3) for his trip to Tokyo next day. In the dream a high official, a civil servant and a young woman were also killed in the crash; in the actual flight the local governor calls to ask if there is room on the air marshal's plane for Lord Wainwright (Ralph Truman), a colonial officer (Alexander Knox) and his secretary (Sheila Sim). The fatal conditions are completed when "a coarse, flashy man" (George Rose) wangles passage...
...destiny as predestiny is an old psychological trump, but it still takes tricks, particularly when played by a master, in this case Director Leslie Norman, who produced The Cruel Sea. He manages to set the mood exactly-and somehow he keeps the audience from going claustrophobic in the cramped Dakota cabin. Best of all is the picture's sense-a very British sense-of straight-faced tease...
...Francisco's California School of Fine Arts to $5,000,000 for New York University. The list includes names as famed as Harvard ($4,510,000), but there are others scarcely anyone has ever heard of. Pennsylvania has the largest number of beneficiaries (57). North Dakota has only one (Jamestown College), and five states-Arizona, Delaware, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming-have none...