Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours after the session started, when...
Taming Cobras. Much of all this began under seasoned adult leadership, but a new wrinkle is the help project launched by students themselves. In the forests of northern Minnesota, 16 collegians representing campuses from Bryn Mawr to Minnesota are living among the Chippewa Indians, who are 75% unemployed and too indifferent to care much. By organizing parties and ball games, the boys and girls of Project Awareness have slashed the Chippewas' usual summer crime wave to a low that startles even the sheriff...
Same day, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (who used to be a pharmacist himself) summoned his Government Operations subcommittee to hear FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick and Pharmacologist Kelsey. Canadian-born Dr. Kelsey, 48, a low-heeled, no-nonsense woman who has practiced medicine besides teaching pharmacology, was a new employee at FDA in September 1960. Her first major assignment was to pass on the application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years...
...first half of the season, the American League pennant race seemed as unpredictable as a frog-jumping contest. In the first three months, four teams swapped the lead−Cleveland, Minnesota, New York, even the improbable Los Angeles Angels (TIME, July 13). At one point last month, only 3½ games separated the first seven teams. But by last week, the league had settled down to a scramble for second place. On top of the pack once again were the perennial champion New York Yankees. They were just a little overdue...
From second-place Minnesota it's a long drop to the Boston Red Sox, but it needn't have been. Manager Mike Higgins has consistently mishandled his young team, and although the Red Sox have crucial weaknesses, they should be flirting with the first-Division teams rather than battling to stay ahead of ninth-place Kansas City...