Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student-organized fund-raising group for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy is phoning every undergraduate at Harvard and Radcliffe to raise money for the Minnesota Democrat's presidential campaign...
Yesterday the Sox lost 4-3 in 12 innings to the Minnesota Twins, dropping their spring record to 6-11 for ninth place in the American half of the Grapefruit League...
...laughed off as a windmill tilter, shrugged off as a lackluster campaigner, written off as a condescending cynic. But last week, when the votes in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary were counted, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eu gene J. McCarthy came off-to practically everyone's surprise-a hero. THE UNFORESEEN EUGENE, proclaimed a placard toted by one of his fans after the balloting, and that said...
...hitherto little-appreciated streak of steel in the man, just as his showing in New Hampshire called to mind the usually overlooked fact that in 20 years of electoral politics he has not yet lost a race. All of his previous contests, however, have been waged in his native Minnesota...
...leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing up to 25,000 fresh Midwestern volunteers pouring in from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa-not to mention a goodly number of the Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience, and one veteran said: "Some of their instruction will have to be given on the buses." Other cadres were at work...