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...took Joe Tong of Lecompton, Kans., through the amazed heavens from California to New York. Tong's 250-lb. ultralight plane made the trip in a record 18 days. But Tong was not fast enough to escape arrest for a bad check he had dropped in Grand Rapids, Minn., during the trip. Police let Tong go when he made restitution (a reneging backer had caused the check to bounce, he said), and off he flew, talking enthusiastically of making an ultralight flight to the North Pole...
West St. Paul, Minn...
...that went through the Great Depression and the great war, World War II, maybe we thought we ought to make things easier for our children," mused the President. "Maybe we're partly responsible for what has happened." Ronald Reagan's main message to the forum in Hopkins, Minn., sponsored by his National Commission on Excellence in Education (N.C.E.E.), which was appointed by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, was that the time has come to put the starch back in education. Reagan called for merit pay for teachers and a return to basics. "You have...
Swanville, Minn...
...that Gandhi would have failed against the radical and unique evil of Nazi Germany is to say merely that he would have failed against history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe). But to say, as Ho Chi Minn did in 1922, that Gandhi "would have long since entered heaven had [he] been born in one of the French colonies" is to admit that the failure of nonviolence may be the historical rule...