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...oddball hero was Roger Guy English, 23, who claims to hold world marks for twisting, staying awake and kissing. His most serious attempt at record breaking will take place in August when he begins a 1,876-mile swim down the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn., to New Orleans, which he has to do in fewer than 176 days...
...students the stigma of working for industry has largely gone. "People realize that business is starting to clean up, to become conscious of its responsibilities," says Senior Ron Wolff of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Students once again seem more interested in careers than causes. "When I started college, I wanted to help peopie," says Diane Gordon, a senior at Syracuse University. "Now I want to help myself...
Reserve Mining, which is owned jointly by Armco Steel and Republic Steel, produces 15% of the U.S.'s iron ore. It mines taconite around Babbitt, Minn., then ships the flintlike rock 50 miles to Silver Bay, on the shores of Lake Superior. There the iron content of the taconite is extracted, and the wastes, or "tailings," are dumped into the water. Any time that Reserve is attacked for polluting the lake-and the attacks have been continuous since 1967-it says that it might have to close the plant if ordered to stop. That would wreak economic havoc, since...
CAMILLA CHRISTINE HALL. She is the daughter of a Lutheran minister. Her two sisters and a brother died at an early age when the family lived in St. Peter, Minn.; two of a congenital kidney disease, one of a heart ailment. At the University of Minnesota, she was active in the gay rights movement, majored in humanities and graduated...
Small Potatoes. Then it was the turn of Maurice Stans. Wearing a tiny American flag in his lapel, Stans told of his boyhood in Shakopee, Minn., where his father had been a struggling house painter and the family did not have indoor plumbing. Stans recalled that he had slept under the rafters on the unfinished second floor of the house and "when it was below zero outside, it was below zero inside." Stans went on to become a millionaire accountant and Nixon's chief fund raiser; in 1972 alone, he added $55 million to the President's campaign...