Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much alike in their conservatism, Tower and Blakley differ vastly in almost every other way. A former assistant professor of government at Wichita Falls' Midwestern University, Republican Tower is articulate and youthfully energetic...
Roswell L. Gilpatric, 54. Deputy Secretary of Defense, is one of the few Pentagon leaders hand-picked by President Kennedy, who felt that McNamara, inexperienced in Washington ways, would need someone with previous Pentagon wound stripes to help him through the interservice booby traps. The two men-the driving Midwestern production man and the polished Eastern intellectual-have hit it off so well that McNamara now characteristically begins an opinion with the phrase, "Ros and I." Ros Gilpatric made Phi Beta Kappa at Yale (1928), got his law degree there (1931 ) and in time became a leading corporation lawyer...
This reminds one of the blind adoration the Midwestern girls in that classic of our time, Where the Boys Are felt for for Ivy boys. Typically, one remarked, "A date with a Leaguer! Isn't that the end?" American literature fans will remember that one of these admiring belles was ultimately taken to bed, round-robin style, by three Yalies, until late in the idyllic Ft. Lauderdale vacation, when the Yalies simply abandoned the round-robin method. Which all proves that Ivy League boys aren't really so different after...
Harvard prides itself on setting a standard for the country's other educational institutions, but it seems that a small Midwestern college has come up with an idea that the University might well consider. Next fall, St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minn., will institute a four-year guaranteed cost plan insuring students that their tuition fee will not be increased at any time during their college careers. All raises in fees and tuition will be effective only with the incoming freshman class...
WESTERN RAIL FIGHT for control of Western Pacific (TIME, Feb. 17) will involve the Denver & Rio Grande Western, key link between the Western Pacific and Midwestern cities. Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy are buying Rio Grande stock in defensive moves to prevent Santa Fe from setting up a direct Chicago-to-San Francisco route should it win control of Western Pacific...