Word: dakotas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, 66, was nominated for a fourth term, winning nearly 75% of the vote in a race against Richard Murphy, 37, an arch-conservative Sioux Falls attorney. Murphy dropped his membership in the John Birch Society in February, accusing it of interfering in his campaign; yet with the Bircher's characteristic astigmatism, he went so far as to label Conservative Mundt as a liberal "like Hubert Humphrey." With the prestige and seniority of 18 years in the Senate, Mundt is seen as a shoo-in over Democratic State Representative Donn H. Wright...
...Marine fighter pilot in World War II, a Medal of Honor winner, a two-term Governor of South Dakota. Apart from the fact that his strongest cuss word is "criminy," there is nothing about Joe Foss, 50, to suggest that he is a pushover. Yet that is apparently what the owners of the American Football League figured after they elected him commissioner in 1959. They wheeled and dealed behind his back-maneuvering franchises, swapping players, conducting secret, premature drafts of college prospects...
Died. Fred G. Aandahl, 68, Eisenhower's Assistant Secretary of the Interior, a farmer and former Governor of North Dakota who 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...
...from reflecting political expediency, Humphrey's views on Viet Nam are a distillation of his oldest and most deeply held convictions. He learned to be an internationalist and social reformer from his father, a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who was bankrupted by the Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first...
...election year, many Senators saw the justice of Prouty's proposal. Watched by lobbyists from the National Council of Senior Citizens in the gallery, they passed the amendment, 45 to 40, with the support of such normally conservative Republicans as Nebraska's Carl Curtis, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, and Texas' John Tower-all of whom face re-election campaigns this fall. Next day the Senate approved, 46 to 42, an amendment by Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke, barring the Administration's proposal to hike the tax on local telephone service from...