Word: dakotas
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Broad Horizon. Like Hubert Humphrey, McGovern grew up in a small town in South Dakota. His father was a Wesleyan Methodist minister in Mitchell (pop. 6,000). In a state where debating once ranked as football does in Ohio, or basketball in Indiana, young George took eagerly to oratory as a high school student. World War II broadened McGovern's horizons beyond the prairie: as pilot of Dakota Queen, a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber based in Cerignola, Italy, he flew 35 missions over Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, often through heavy antiaircraft fire. Once, with two of the four...
...made McGovern, already a solemn young man, still more somber and earnest. Back home, he plunged into history studies at Dakota Wesleyan, then went off to study for the Methodist ministry. The limitations of the clerical life soon disillusioned him, and he switched to graduate work in American history at Northwestern University, taking a master's and a Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, which culminated in the Ludlow massacre of miners and their families...
Politically, the man who stands to gain the most if there is a reaction to Nixon's belligerence is Senator George McGovern of South Dakota (see story on page 19). His identification with the antiwar cause will doubtless help him in this week's primaries in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine pledged to stop the bombing of the North and withdraw all troops from Indochina, in return for the release of U.S. P.O.W.s, "within 60 days of my inauguration." Hubert Humphrey, his chief centrist rival, knows that he is tarred with having been Lyndon Johnson's Vice...
...pledge to end U.S. involvement in the nation's longest war. But as U.S. bombs smashed into targets near Haiphong and Hanoi and Communist MIGs attacked American warships, Viet Nam was still very much alive as a national issue-and so were the presidential nomination hopes of South Dakota Senator George McGovern...
WHATEVER the cause, a quick way of raising funds is to employ the entertainment talents and instant recognition value of show business celebrities. Well aware of that, presidential candidates increasingly seek their services. So far this year, South Dakota Senator George McGovern has used the stars most effectively, dispatching a money-raising road show organized by Actor Warren Beatty. Its kick-off concert in Los Angeles last week starred Barbra Streisand, James Taylor and Carole King-and took in a handy $300,000. But all of the contenders have a star following. A partial listing...