Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the Senate's week, senatorial voices echoed hollowly in a chamber that was three-quarters empty. One voice clearly heard was that of North Dakota's old-prairie twister, Senator William Langer, howling across 19 years of political history: the Democrats had not kept one of their 1932 platform promises, except the promise to put "the saloons back in business." At the height of his oration, word came that Harry Truman had just vetoed a private relief bill sponsored by Langer. The old man roared: "The bill called for $778.78 to be paid to a veteran...
...five: Indiana's Capehart, Montana's Ecton, North Dakota's Langer, Kansas' Schoeppel, Missouri's Kern...
...return for the butts, which the chapel could not use. Seattle hotel and restaurant men gave enough money for a $2,500 organ. One rainy day, when Dirks needed 28 men to help pour the concrete foundations, exactly 28 turned up. The last man to arrive was from North Dakota; he had read about the chapel, on the mainland, and decided to come over and help. "It's a miracle in the woods," said Dirks...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...
There was no perhaps about it. Dr. Michalek had given tenfold doses of methadon to both Clifford and Mrs. Pearson. He injected antidotes, and stimulants (oxygen, Benzedrine, adrenalin) were given later in Dakota Hospital. But within 24 hours of what started as a routine experiment, Dr. Michalek stood by Clifford's bedside as he died, then at Mrs. Pearson...