Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker Library at the Business School is hosting an exhibition of Indian portraits from the McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. Thomas L. McKenney was Superintendent of Indian Affairs under Presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jackson, and fulfilled his duties by having portraits painted of all the Indian delegations who came to visit him in Washington. These are lithographic copies of the originals, which were destroyed by fire in 1865. Now through...
...hear one of them. He's addressing a tight little group in Littletown, Conn. (Madison Avenue is getting a little trite). "Well, as you know, this year we've got a tie-in with Oldsmobile. Now, gentlemen, I don't expect any of you boys to go out there in the pulpit and hard-sell an automobile. That is ridiculous. But I was thinking now. What do you say to this? If just every once in a while, if we'd throw in a few little terms, just little things like, uh, 'Drive the car that He'd drive...
...reasons that Karleton Armstrong was not made a folk hero. The Wisconsin graduate student who blew up a war-research building at the university in Madison and killed an unrelated occupant had a few radical intellectuals to help him out at his trial, but the liberals and students who shared his point of view about the Indochina War couldn't make the leap to understanding his action. They felt the horror of the war, but for them fighting it was not a way of life for people to join in together. For Armstrong, reacting to the war was a personal...
...native of Madison, Wis., Lamm speaks less with the measured drawl of the Westerner than with the rapid-fire delivery of the transplant. But zealous as he is on the environment, he is no extremist. "I am a politician of the finite," he says, and he fully expects to cooperate with Republicans, who are scarcely less alarmed about the future of their state than Democrats. "We're not saying 'no growth' or opting for a steady state economy," says Lamm. "But growth has to be controlled. What we're really demanding is that growth...
...festive occasion that was Madison Square Garden in 1971 had become serious business for Ali's legions in 1974. After all, the Man is 32, he did weigh in at 216.7 pounds, ten or so more than he promised...