Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aberdeen, a typical prairie town in South Dakota, had seen nothing like it since the introduction of the ring-necked pheasant turned the town into a hunter's paradise. Telegrams poured in, including greetings from the President of the U.S. and Senator Karl Mundt. Newsmen, radio and TV crews were everywhere. St. Luke's Hospital swarmed with guards trying to control the unusual traffic. The quintuplets born to Mary Ann Fischer, 30, wife of a billing clerk in a wholesale grocery, were thriving, and the town was afire with pride...
Alaska 3.54 South Dakota...
Delaware 2.84 North Dakota...
...were 54,000,000 to 1, but it happened-and not once, but twice in a single week. The odds-off event: quintuplets. The first set, five boys, was born Sept. 7 in Maracaibo, Venezuela; the second, four girls and a boy, arrived seven days later in Aberdeen, South Dakota. At week's end mothers and quints were doing fine...
Later that afternoon, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota thoughtfully questioned the wisdom of continued expansion of our enormous reserves of nuclear weapons. The senator noted that all authorities agree the United States currently possesses a staggering overkill capacity for any conceivable enemy. He asked the Senate if annual appropriations of billions of dollars to improve our more than adequate stockpile was militarily, economically, or morally justified...