Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa City, Iowa...
...divide one salary. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ruth Freis and Miriam Miller share the post of program director for a network of day-care centers, and Engineer Chris Jako has arranged to split a job planning a science center with Biologist Pat Cross. A few liberal-arts colleges-including Iowa's Grinnell and Ohio's Oberlin-have hired husband-and-wife teams for single junior professorial slots...
...outgoing shell from a U.S. Army howitzer accidentally struck a treetop and exploded above the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Americal Division. Six were injured, two were killed. One of them was Michael Mullen, 25, the fifth generation of his family to farm the same fertile Iowa acreage. Michael was pierced by a small crescent of steel that tore a hole in his heart. He was sleeping and died instantly...
...were victims of what the Army called "friendly fire." Back in La Porte, Iowa, Peg and Gene Mullen, Michael's parents, found the term painfully offensive. Moreover, the Army had listed their son as a "nonbattle" casualty, a category that, the Mullens were to learn, was used rather loosely to keep down the weekly figure of war dead...
...participate in antiwar demonstrations and confront Senators and Congressmen. She corresponded with other parents whose sons had been killed in Viet Nam. The Mullens also used Michael's Government insurance money to publish a full-page ad in the Des Moines Register. It consisted of 714 crosses representing Iowa's Viet Nam War dead. One of the results was that the family's phone was tapped. Once, when Daughter Mary Mullen called her mother, she heard an unfamiliar voice say, "Shut that thing...