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...Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most distinguished drama west of Broadway. The Minnesota Orchestra under Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is one of the finest in the country. The Twins, the North Stars and the Vikings have brought a state of natural participant sportsmen...
Family Clinic. Born in Topeka, the enlightener was the son of deeply religious parents. His father, Dr. Charles F. Menninger (1862-1953), had an innovative streak among his conservative fibers. After a visit to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he decided to set up a Menninger Diagnostic Clinic. His eldest son Karl, recently graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School, joined him as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry. Later Karl's younger brother, William, joined the clinic. The most tactful member of the family, "Dr. Will" (who died in 1966) fought valiantly for reforms in mental hospitals...
...product of America's military-industrial momentum and the missionary spirit - at least its anti-Communist version - as well as the Go-Getter mystique that the author so ad mires. Boorstin may dislike "important events," but that is one that no historian can ignore. · Mayo Mahs...
...President's inadvertently provocative speech was broadcast to 250,000 restless young Perónists who had gathered in and around Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. Cámpora's words led to a paroxysm of rioting and looting, during which outgoing President Alejandro Lanusse was spat upon and Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the 84-year-old primate of Argentina, was jostled when demonstrators rocked...
...prudently avoided difficulty by using a helicopter. It was just as well: violence began when one young Perónist descamisado (shirtless one) pounded on the limousine bearing two other members of Argentina's military junta to inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might escalate into full-scale riots, Cámpora issued a statement that was broadcast pleading for "restraint and tranquillity...