Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department, reaction was less dramatic but still pointedly directed against Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia. A seven-week tour of the U.S.S.R. by the University of Minnesota symphonic band was canceled. So was a special Aeroflot junket of Russian VIPs to New York to promote the new Moscow-New York flights (though the regular Aeroflot and Pan Am flights will continue). Finally, at week's end, the State Department halted a cultural-exchange program with Poland, and announced that further moves were under consideration. A cultural program with Rumania-the only Warsaw Pact nation that did not join...
...begin with, each candidate is asked to write a brief autobiography specifically aimed at revealing emotional instability. He then takes a psychological sentence-completion test and an exam known as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. If his responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test...
...beginning, the Senator from Minnesota was a mystery -a nearly unfathomable blend of intellect, humor, humility and arrogance. Always he was his own man. When he was asked whether he would make a good President, he answered: "I am willing to be President. I think I would be an adequate President. I really don't want to let you believe that I'm carrying the whole burden for the country. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really...
...about-the-links. Stoutness is not only stylish on the tour these days, it seems to be a prerequisite for success. Witness Jack Nicklaus, Julius Boros and Lee Trevino, who have together won five tournaments this year and a combined total of $391,802. It is enough to make Minnesota Fats want to trade in his cue for a niblick...
...Rookie Fullback Larry Csonka ground out 90 yds. and two touchdowns. The Buffalo Bills used rookies liberally as they defeated the Detroit Lions 13-9, while the Houston Oilers stopped the Washington Redskins 9-3. Kansas City beat both the St. Louis Cardinals and the resurgent Minnesota Vikings by scores of 13-10. Even the Cincinnati Bengals, a first-year expansion team of castoffs and rookies, held the Pittsburgh Steelers to 29 yds. rushing and 115 yds. passing, gained a total of 318 yds. on the way to a 19-3 triumph...