Word: depauw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sleeping on floors, standing on street corners and canvassing votes in parking lots is what Jennifer L. Barth, a junior at Indiana's DePauw University, has been doing since Sunday. She and a group of about 15 student supporters of Bush, came to Manchester to assist with crunch-time campaigning...
...under attack during the 1988 election campaign for enlisting in the National Guard in 1969 and thereby avoiding Vietnam, he had a simple explanation for his choice of military service: "I wanted to go to law school as soon as possible." But with a lackadaisical undergraduate record at DePauw University, he was far from standard-issue law-school material. Through family connections, Quayle finally won admission to the night program at Indiana University. There he met his soon-to-be wife Marilyn, another law student. Quayle, who has refused to release his law-school transcript, also worked full-time...
Daytime work was expected of Quayle (he had waited on tables at DePauw), and his father suggested working in the office of Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. The father called his friend, fellow Pulliam editor Stan Evans. According to Evans, "Jim asked me to lunch with Dan. I did most of the talking and learned for the first time that he wanted to go to law school. I said I thought it would be better to work in the ((state)) attorney general's office than in the city government, since I knew that many of the people who worked there were...
...much to him as the papers' income. He defied advertisers over matters like liquor licensing and a Phoenix beltway, favored by the business establishment, which he helped defeat. He was prickly about his independence and about that of his family and loved institutions. He resigned from the board of DePauw when the school refused to turn down federal money with strings attached. His own children and heirs were expected to work; the money he left them is tied up, dependent on their performance on the newspapers...
Quayle was such a natural golfer that his grandfather soon liked having him for a partner. The Pulliams read character on the golf course. The DePauw coach admires the nerve, even the courage, of Quayle's game. "He likes the heat of battle." He claims that Quayle rises to challenge, takes chances but keeps his head. Could Quayle beat his old coach, who stays in shape and plays constantly? "By the 16th hole, conversation would be at a minimum...