Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college and law school at Stanford. But he married the daughter of a former Idaho Governor, and returned to open a private law practice in Boise. In 1956 he entered state politics, narrowly beating former cowboy Senator Glenn Taylor in the Democratic primary and then walloping McCarthyite Republican Senator Herman Walker in the general election. Last November Church polled 55% of the vote. He was the only successful Democratic candidate for a major statewide office and the first Democratic senator over to win re-election in Idaho...
...problem of what students will do if and when they emerge form shelters has not yet been realistically answered. As Herman Kahn asks, "Will the survivors envy the dead?" Four Harvard physicians published a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine estimating that only a small percentage of the nation's doctors would survive a nuclear war and that medical supplies and hospitals would be virtually non-existent. If this is so the seriously wounded will probably die, while the rest will have to fight disease in a radioactive environment that will tend to lower their resistance...
...Williams over Mort Willow, 15-12, 15-11, 4-15, 15-8; Paul Sullivan over Jim Coons, 13-15, 16-13, 10-15, 17-15, 15-3; Doug Walter over Gord Gryatt, 15-10, 15-8, 17-16; Terry Robinson over Erv Herman...
...free port, and hence the most popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular, if sometimes remote, beaches; Herman Wouk lives there and Labor Leader Michael Quill has a house there; it is otherwise chiefly notable for vacations on the cheap-11,000 college students from the U.S. turned up there last Christmas...
...know a man who was "sitting in a sewer and adding to it." Nor was Truman Capote seriously feuding when he remarked of Jack Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." Novelist Nelson Algren was unable to goad either Sloan Wilson or Herman Wouk into a full-dress feud when he wrote: "If The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit married Marjorie Morningstar on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't bother to go to the wedding...