Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kahe, a documentary on problems facing South Dakota Indians, with Johnny Cash and Senator George McGovern. 5, April 15. Chan...
...some 50,000 physicians. The American Medical Association disagrees. Reporting in the A.M.A. Journal on the results of a yearlong study of medical manpower, Henry Mason of the association's department of undergraduate medical education concludes that the problem is not scarcity but uneven distribution. In South Dakota, for example, there is only one internist for every 12,813 people. In 18 states, there is only one pediatrician for each 20,000. Obstetrician-gynecologists are also unevenly distributed; while the national median is 1 to 11,915, the ratio in ten states is only 1 to 20,000. There...
...contest for delegates to the Democratic National Convention, Muskie led for 49 delegates, South Dakota Senator George McGovern led in 21 races and uncommitted candidates...
Over at the McGovern election center in Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, a crowd of reporters heard the South Dakota Senator claim a "moral victory." Asked if he had been the main factor in Muskie's less-than-expected performance, McGovern said, "Well I don't think there's any question about it. I'm emerging as the leading challenger to Ed Muskie...
GEORGE McGOVERN. He is forthright on the issues of the Viet Nam War, tax reform and income redistribution, but he does not dramatize them very well. He is still the quiet, low-keyed prairie politician who won a Senate seat in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. In conversation he can be witty and charming, but on the hustings he turns as dry as last year's cornstalk. Though he is supported by much the same constituency that was captivated by Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy in 1968, he does...