Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limit." Standing in the rococo Senate Caucus Room, Minnesota's Eugene Joseph McCarthy, 51, a sardonic intellectual and an outspoken critic of Viet Nam policy, announced that he will enter at least four of next spring's primaries as a Democratic antiwar candidate opposing Lyndon Johnson...
...either case, McCarthy's only plausible personal expectation is to remain the senior Senator from Minnesota-and even that may be in question. Immediately after last week's announcement, party leaders in McCarthy's and Hubert Humphrey's home state declared themselves foursquare behind Lyndon Johnson. McCarthy himself is not exactly sure of what he is trying to accomplish-except to restore intelligent discussion to the dissenters' camp, to give them a voice and a vote...
McCarthy has proven himself to be a formidable vote-getter in his home state of Minnesota. He has been elected to the House five times and to the Senate twice--including a landslide victory in 1964. He has never lost an election to public office...
...Defensive Tackle Alan Page of Minnesota, 22, 6 ft. 5 in., 270 lbs., was named lineman of the week for his devastating performance against Detroit. Page racked up Lion backs with so much enthusiasm that he caused four fumbles and recovered another himself. The Vikings have also been getting such outstanding performances from Backs Clinton Jones and Bob Grim, Flanker Gene Washington and Tight End John Beasley that the team boasts the brightest crop of rookies in the league...
...federal standards. In hearings before a Senate agriculture subcommittee, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Joseph M. Montoya proposed federal takeover of any state's inspection program that failed after two or three years to measure up to U.S. Government standards. Going a long step further, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter F. Mondale last week was pushing a bill calling for federal inspection of all meat sold for human consumption...