Word: kneip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians, who had helped them to grow food. At Memorial Hall, near Plymouth Rock, this week, some 2,000 people will gather at the customary turkey feast that has come to be shared across the land as a kind of national communion. Says Carolyn Kneip of Plymouth: "If the Pilgrims returned today to see what they had started, they would be dumbfounded-and rilled with pride...
...TIME'S young leaders left office. Two Democrats retired: Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota and Representative Barbara Jordan of Texas. Democratic Governors Jerry Apodaca of New Mexico and Reubin Askew of Florida were ineligible to run for second terms. Democratic Governor Richard Kneip of South Dakota resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Singapore...
...RICHARD KNEIP, Governor of South Dakota: I would count myself separate from my family. I was one of nine children. My father started out as a shoemaker. He was a very hard man. It was not a loving kind of relationship then, but in the past ten years I could not have been closer to anyone than I was to my father. In his later years he mellowed. Earlier he was very anti-education. He threw me down the stairs of his office when I told him that I wanted to go to college. He thought it was a waste...
South Dakota, Richard Kneip...
...based on civil service, and pushed through plans for the first degree-granting medical school in a state whose ratio of one doctor for every 1,100 people is the nation's poorest. Kneip was raised in Elkton, S. Dak., built a dairy-equipment business and then entered politics, winning the first of three terms in the state senate in 1964. First elected Governor in 1970, the folksy, breezy politician is favored for a third term in November...