Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rogers had followed just such a policy. He had left the East and gone to Minnesota, where he "set up his lightning rod" as expert on foreign policy. When the State Department decided that it needed a man from the Midwest Rogers was the logical choice...
WHEN the people of Crookston, Minn., looked out their windows one morning last week, they were reassured. Their city was still there. Despite a brutal, 70-hour battering by the rampaging Red Lake River, Crookston had survived relatively undamaged. Other communities in the upper Midwest were not so fortunate. Swollen by the heaviest accumulation of melting snow in history, the region's rivers gushed over their banks and crested in five states -North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Tumbling gigantic chunks of ice before them, the torrents inundated vast areas, causing at least $31 million in damage...
North Dakota was the hardest hit. Twelve thousand persons had to be evacuated from Minot when the Souris River went wild. Similar emergencies were faced throughout the upper Midwest. Yet despite the seriousness of the floods, the toll in damage, injury and death could have been much worse had it not been for precautions taken by the U.S. Government and some individual communities...
...times employed such Democratic stalwarts as Lloyd Hand, Pierre Salinger and Clark Clif ford's law firm. Nixon ordered all of Continental's awards canceled or deferred, partly on grounds that the CAB should authorize direct service to the South Pacific from points in the East and Midwest. That could open new horizons for financially ailing Eastern Air Lines, whose Pacific ambitions were endorsed by a CAB examiner but ignored by Johnson...
...most enthusiastic response to the merger came from the midwest. Josephine P. Kitch '34, a Radcliffe area representative in Wichita, Kansas, said the possibility of co-ed living "presents exciting possibilities. They've got it here in the heart of the midwest. However, if they think it's going to be risque, they've got it wrong." She added, "so many alumnae are married to Harvard men anyway, I don't think the merger will make that much difference in contributions...