Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states, region by region (further information is available from TIME-LIFE Books, Time & Life Building, Chicago, Ill. 60611). Consulting editor for the series is Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard. The second volume, The Heartland, written by TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin, covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. It will be published in March, and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, for one, is already excited about...
...14th novel, Wright Morris recounts a day's events in a small Indiana town just before a twister hits. As a slice of life, the book is thin indeed, and coming from Morris (The Field of Vision, Love Among the Cannibals), it is exasperating. The familiar elements are there: the pointless plot, the Twain tone of Midwest innocence and irony, the fey and the freak who get caught up in the drama. Morris has used them all before, often to great comic effect. This time he has barely bothered to construct more than the outline of a story, leaning...
...Republican on the House Appropriations committee, said the budget is "an enigma proposing, on one hand, something for almost everybody, and on the other hand, moves to gobble up our economic resources and dull the will of private enterprise." In the same vein, Republican Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana described the budget as "guns, butter...
Died. Henry F. Schricker, 83, Indiana Democratic politician, the only man to serve two terms (1941-45 and 1949-53) as his state's Governor, the genial backslapping son of an immigrant Bavarian storekeeper who was known as "the man who never made anyone mad," nevertheless had enough iron to clean up his state's inefficient tax-collection and welfare systems; of a heart attack; in Knox...
Columbia opened with a fizzle, losing to City College of New York, which embarrassed Ivy League fans in the metropolitan area. But the team has since defeated Pitt and Indiana State to take the Steel Bowl, and tipped George Washington in double overtime. But Harvard was crushed by third-ranked North Carolina...