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...four Senators did not keep their pledges on the secret ballot. Suspicion centered mainly upon Washington's two Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, because Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff. who has had past differences with the Kennedy brothers; and South Dakota's George McGovern, an announced presidential candidate, who is trying to appeal to the same kinds of voters that a Kennedy candidacy would probably attract...
...great-great-grandfather, Gerrit John Vandenberg, some of whose children came to the U.S. from Holland. Of Vandenberg's eight children, four inherited his ailment, including one daughter who passed it on to seven of her nine children. Last month the N.G.F. staged a reunion in South Dakota for 95 of Vandenberg's descendants, who came from five states and Argentina. On hand were Drs. William Nyhan and Roger Rosenberg of the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, plus Dr. Lawrence Schut, a Minneapolis neurologist who is one of the unaffected members of the Swier...
...issue similarly will carry over, since a Senate filibuster against the aircraft led by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire proved effective in blocking a definitive decision to continue desired by Washington's Boeing-conscious Democrat Henry Jackson and other SST supporters. Overriding the objections of South Dakota Democrat George McGovern and other liberals, the Senate grudgingly accepted a House-passed food-stamp bill that disqualifies a family from the benefits if it includes an able-bodied adult who refuses to accept work...
While this correlation between population and social ills seems logical enough, the facts to buttress it are far from conclusive. Ansley Coale, director of Princeton's Office of Population Research, noted that crime rates have climbed in Wyoming, South Dakota and West Virginia, though their populations have declined notably. Moreover. Coale continued, both London and Holland have remarkably low crime rates despite their dense populations...
...Because another conference brought forth a food-stamp renewal bill that Senator George McGovern of South Dakota finds "obnoxious," he threatened a filibuster to thwart its passage. For the almost 9,000,000 poor Americans who now receive the stamps, the alternatives at week's end appeared to be either a simple renewal of the current plan or no stamps at all. McGovern was outraged by a provision requiring recipients, except women with dependent children, to register for any available job in order to get the stamps...