Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead of the original schedule, the first 50 Minutemen will go operational in Montana. And by 1965, the Air Force will have between 750 and 900 Minutemen on the picket line in Montana, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and other states still to be chosen...
Dipping to dangerously low altitudes, the two-engine Dakota carefully traced the bulges and inlets of the New Guinea coastline. Aboard the plane a weary man and girl spelled each other at the windows with a pair of field glasses. First New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, hollow-eyed and haggard after a 10,000-mile emergency flight to New Guinea from Manhattan, peered anxiously down at the mangrove and loraro swamps. Then Daughter Mary Rockefeller Strawbridge reached for the glasses. Together they strained for sight or sign of Mary's twin brother, Michael Clark Rockefeller...
...Roger Maris is a cocky pro with the classic attributes of the power hitter: keen eyesight, quick wrists, magnificent coordination. His controlled, compact swing is one of baseball's prettiest sights. "There's no waste motion at all," marvels Yankee Batting Coach Wally Moses. Raised in North Dakota, the son of a mechanical supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with...
...badlands, showing his metamorphosis from dude to rough rider, his encounters with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and a French nobleman who tried to set up a meat-packing empire long before Swift took on Armour. Following T.R.'s memoirs about the period, the pageant's Dakota cowboys take one look at his glasses and begin calling him "Four Eyes." T.R. bats all of them and sternly vows reform when he witnesses the lynching of a horse thief...
Born. To Roger Maris, 26, New York Yankee bleacher-blaster, and Patricia Carveil Maris, 26, his North Dakota high school sweetheart: their fourth child, third son; in Kansas City...