Word: minnesota
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Five years of planning by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation have produced the exchange program. Founded in 1957 by the "Big Eleven" (Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, and Wisconsin), the CIC, comprised of one representative from each school, meets periodically to consider possibilities of co-operation. A small professional staff, located at Purdue, "implements committee decisions and functions as a catalyst." As a "kind of communications center," the CIC's function, as stated in the 1962 Annual Report, is "to aid member universities in improving educational and public services by adding strength...
...four months, Incumbent Republican Elmer L. Andersen has continued to use the Governor's office in the Minnesota capitol, while Democrat Karl Rolvaag has squatted patiently downstairs. They have been waiting to see who won the election. Last week a three-judge tribunal ruled that Rolvaag led Andersen by 78 votes (out of 1,329,302 cast in November). About all that remains for Andersen's hopes is the possibility of a last-ditch appeal to the State Supreme Court. Said a Rolvaag aide: "It would seem very unlikely Andersen can recover...
Condemnation of the more unpleasant aspects of College Hockey has not been limited to Cambridge or even the East. John Mariucci, coach of the Minnesota sextet, has said "Eastern teams have been the only ones that are doing anything for American hockey." Like Harvard, Minnesota has often refused to compete against such rabid recruiters as Michigan and Denver...
...Faculty Committee's desire to avoid "widely publicized and commercially successful teams made up of heavily subsidized specialists" is an admirable one. But, once again, the University's complaint can't be with the WHL as such since the varsity was allowed to play Colorado and Minnesota over the last two seasons...
...other offices on Capitol Hill, the mail told the same story. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel has received five letters favoring President Kennedy's tax program out of 2,000 letters about it. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey has received 700 letters about taxes so far this session-and only one of them clearly approved of the President's proposals. Humphrey staffers talk jokingly of framing that lone letter on the Senator's office wall...