Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson may also be in for a difficult time in the St. Louis tournament. Harvard's first round opponent is Wisconsin, a team that finished second in the Western College Hockey Association last year. Wisconsin lost to a perennially strong North Dakota team, but the Badgers have come out on top in seven other games this season...
...change that situation, a special commission first headed by South Dakota's Senator George McGovern worked for 8 months and finally in November of last year adopted a program to reform delegate selection. A second commission reviewed the commission rules. Apart from trying to tone down the convention spectacle itself, the commissions' 18 guidelines call for these major changes...
...attending political meetings. Many other Senators had left Washington sure that their absence would make no difference. As it happened, they were right for the wrong reason: the opposition turned out to be overwhelming. After the debacle, Minority Leader Hugh Scott polled every Senator except Karl Mundt of South Dakota, who has been ill and inactive for several years. Scott's tally: 58 against...
...strange mixture of Americana. Speaking in a slow, relaxed voice which retains a Dakota twang, George McGovern reflects a traditional homespun, hearthside American culture. At the same time, he is a hard realist about big business and military involvement abroad...
Then a scandal broke. South Dakota Republican Senator Francis Case declared that an oil lobbyist had offered him a $2,500 bribe to support the bill. An angry President Eisenhower vetoed the measure. Asked about the scandal, Connally remarked: "1 had no part in the incident any more than anyone else who was interested in the oil and gas business." After Richardson's death in 1959, Connally was made one of three co-executors of his estate, a job for which he was paid...