Word: iowa
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...instances when Cole wavers from purely descriptive history is in his discussion of Lindbergh and the Jews. In September, 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, Lindbergh declared that the Roosevelt Administration, were seeking to push America into the War. He said that he understood that Jews were bitter about persecution in Germany, but warned, "instead of agitating for war, Jewish groups should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." He had written in his diary two years earlier, after the Crystalnight pogrom. "They (the Germans...
Though Schuller decided to become a minister as a five-year-old Iowa farm boy, and was later ordained by the Reformed Church in America, his religion business did not take off till he arrived in California two decades ago. He had little more than a $500 grant from his denomination and a simple credo: "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." The hurt, he reasoned, was greatest among agnostic transients flooding the West...
Porter was born in Provo, Utah, and reared there and in Ames, Iowa, the son of a professor. He played a little basketball and tennis, did some overseas work for the Mormon Church, graduated from Brigham Young University with straight A's (except for a few A minuses), became a Rhodes scholar, taught at Oxford, came back to Harvard and then became a White House Fellow, one of 15 selected to work and learn for a year at high-level posts in the Government...
When a wrestler does win in Stillwater, he becomes an instant campus hero. The school comes down with "wrastlin' " fever before big matches. On the evening of a showdown with powerful Iowa State recently, the beer joints were crammed with students fueling up on draught Coors. By match time, every available space was filled in 7,100-seat Gallagher Hall-named after former O.S.U. Wrestling Coach Edward Clark Gallagher, father of the modern college sport. Once the Cowboys were introduced and started whipping their opponents, the chanting crowd exploded. Right through the final contest between 290-lb. Freshman Jimmy...
With only 3½ minutes left to play, Indiana was leading Iowa in basketball recently by a runaway score of 92-41, but the Indiana fans were hungry for victory - ravenous, in fact. When Iowa raised its total to 46 points with 30 seconds to go, the Indiana fans began chanting, "Hamburgers and fries! Hamburgers and fries!" The baffled Iowa players got three more points while stomachs knotted in the stands. Seven seconds to go. Iowa missed a shot and then another at the buzzer to make the final score...