Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virgil M. Hancher grew up on an Iowa farm, went from the State University of Iowa to Oxford for his M.A., and eventually turned himself into a successful Chicago lawyer. But today at 55, Hancher is renowned neither as farmer nor lawyer: he is one of the top state university presidents...
...twelve years, the State University of Iowa (enrollment: 7,200) has come to know him as a friendly, bookish man who rises at 6:45, spends the next ten hours hurrying about his campus, charging purposefully into all sorts of projects. But he is also a familiar figure far beyond his own 700 acres. Last week, when the American Council on Education wanted someone to head a new committee to study Government scientific research grants to universities ($100-150 million a year), it could think of no abler man than Virgil Hancher...
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...State University of Iowa's Erwin K. Mapes, 67, who will continue to lecture on Spanish and South American literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio...
...lace presented to her when he was working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which suggest some un-Hooverish pictures. "There was Cook's Hill," he writes from his notes. "That was a great long hill where on winter's nights we slid down at terrific pace with our tummies tight to homemade sleds...