Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson planned to resume his Mormon duties in Utah as member of the church's governing Council of Twelve, and Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton headed for Hastings, Neb. to pick up his chain of eight dailies in four states (Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming), where he left them over seven years ago. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell decided to stay in politics for a while at least, prepared to run for Governor of New Jersey...
Prayer by the Squirt. When life is gone, mourning begins. Its variations are endless. Until recently, the Dakota Indians slashed themselves with knives, sometimes even killed themselves in transports of bereavement. The Ovimbundu simply wear a leather thong on the left wrist...
Besides Davis, Inman, Dym, and Crichton the starting team lists Ben Crabtree' a powerful cornerman from North Dakota, who was also an All-State selection in high school...
...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
...that moment last week Kennedy had already announced, or was ready to announce, several key appointments, and had all but finally decided on several others. For Secretary of Agriculture, he had in mind South Dakota's Democratic Congressman George McGovern, 38, an ex-Air Force hero who ran this year against Republican Senator Karl Mundt and lost. A onetime history professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, bright and energetic George McGovern in 1956 became the first Democrat in 20 years to be elected to high office in his state. His views on agriculture match Kennedy's: he favors high...