Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project is based entirely on the requests of the Indians themselves, stressed Dorothy Lee, lecturer in Anthropology and a co-sponsor of the project with Stookey. Personal contact was made with Indians on South Dakota reservations "to find out what they want, and not what we think they ought to want. They are overwhelmed enough by projects cooked up in Washington without invitation," she said...
...Great Northern Pacific would inherit extensive trucking services owned by the separate railroads, as well as the N.P.'s oil-rich land holdings in Montana and North Dakota, and would have combined assets of $2.8 billion. Under the proposed merger terms. N.P. stockholders would get one share in the new company for each share held; G.N. stockholders would get the same, plus one-half share of preferred; Burlington stockholders would get 3¼ shares of the new stock for each share held...
...Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million in unfinished, abandoned housing projects-preventing the transfer of a B-52 squadron there. At Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, Calif., some 400 incomplete military houses are rotting under the winter rains, while servicemen commute from towns...
...always pleasantly known to his boss as "that young man from Denver." He remained young, or at least he retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by the Dakota Indians and telling her lady in waiting to "get rid of that damned thing." He remembered lean Eamon De Valera, clad in long underwear, donning huge boxing gloves and sparring with his bull-necked secretary in a sitting room of the old Waldorf. It sometimes seems that Fowler...
...other promising front court men are 6 ft., 5 in. Ben Crabtree, an all-state selection in North Dakota last year, and 6 ft., 6 in. Frank Martin, a teammate of Jerry Lucas when he was playing for Middletown, Ohio, High School...