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...chain haters, it is difficult to characterize Gannett journalism. The firm's home office in Rochester approves budgets, buys certain syndicated features and offers design and editorial assistance. Otherwise, Gannett editors are allowed wide latitude. Most would probably agree with Tom Callinan, managing editor of the Little Falls (Minn.) Daily Transcript (circ. 3,800), when he says: "I stay within my budget, put out a good product and they don't bother...
DIED. Ton Due Thang, 91, figurehead President of North Viet Nam after the death of Ho Chi Minn in 1969 and the only man to serve as President since the country's 1976 reunification with South Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Hanoi. The choice of the southern-born "Uncle Ton," a longtime Communist Party faithful, as successor to the legendary Ho was a compromise designed to forestall a power struggle between more influential leaders in the party. While Ton's presidency was largely ceremonial in character, the power of the office is now likely...
Insiders say that the probable starter for tomorrow night's game is Giff Duffy, a sophomore who has seen limited action this season. With the Crimson defense still ailing, the North Oaks, Minn. native will be prepared by plenty of shots from the powerful Knights, who lead the ECAC in scoring. Bill O'Flaherty's squad has already clinched one of the eight ECAC playoff spots with a 13-7 record...
...months later, as Dean of Carleton College--a well-respected, small liberal arts college in the wilds of Northfield, Minn.--Stanley has a job that he never bargained for. "If anybody had told me (a) that I'd be in college administration or (b) that I'd be in a position of responsibility, I would have told them that they were crazy," Stanley said in an interview this week. By the time he turned 40--about three months ago--Stanley's life had taken a complete turnabout. "Having gone through such a major change," Stanley says, "turning 40 didn...
CINDY NELSON. She is 23 now, and it has been nearly a decade since she burst on the skiing scene. At 15, a native of Lutsen, Minn., she was the top U.S. woman downhiller, tuning up for the Sapporo Olympics with startling performances on the World Cup circuit. Then, less than a month before the Games opened, she took a dreadful fall on Switzerland's treacherous Grindelwald course and was laid up for months with a dislocated hip. She won the bronze in the '76 Olympics in the downhill. This is her last Olympics, and to win a gold...