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...what to do. Next morning the President postponed a scheduled press conference and a formal dinner for Chief Justice Earl Warren. But he went ahead with a perfunctory ceremony observing the tenth anniversary of the Smith-Mundt Act permanently establishing the Voice of America. Unintended high point: when South Dakota's irrepressible Senator Karl Mundt produced a ten-year-old picture of General Eisenhower plumping for the bill, burbled, "You haven't changed a bit, Mr. President." Squinting hard at the photo, the President muttered a disbelieving "Oh, bro-ther...
Banned by the state constitution from seeking a third two-year term as governor of South Dakota, hard-shelled Joseph Jacob Foss, 42, Marine Corps fighter-pilot ace in World War II (26 kills and the Medal of Honor), announced last September that he was retiring from politics, looked toward a comfortable job in private industry next January. Last week Joe Foss changed his mind, opened a campaign for the First District congressional seat held by George McGovern, South Dakota's first Democratic Congressman in 18 years. Reason: Foss was persuaded to run by 50 leading South Dakota Republicans...
Despite its 3 and 8 record, the varsity is one of the best hockey teams in the East. After playing such teams as Minnesota, North Dakota, and the U.S. Amateurs, the Crimson should view the Jumbos with some relief...
...North Dakota, along with Minnesota one of the best in the Western Hockey League, was the next sextet to beat the varsity as it won easily, 5 to 1. The game was played in North Dakota's "Winter Sports Palace" in 2 degree below zero weather...
...When Benson went to Europe," thundered Republican Congressman Usher Burdick last week, "we made a mistake by buying him a return ticket." Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had curdled North Dakota's Burdick by announcing that federal price supports on milk and butterfat would be cut to the legal minimum, 75% of parity, on April 1. Current support levels: 83% for milk, 80% for butterfat. The cuts were needed, explained Benson, to shrink the "incentive for excessive production...