Word: minnesota
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Last week, when the votes of the Baseball Writers' Association were counted, Yaz was indeed the Most Valuable Player-but only on 19 out of 20 secret ballots. The other vote went to Cesar Tovar, a utility infielder for the second-place Minnesota Twins who batted .267, hit six homers and drove in 47 runs. "Naturally," sighed Yastrzemski, "I would have liked it to be unanimous. But I'm happy to have...
Cleveland 14--Minnesota...
...this time he had decided on law as a career. He went first to the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.S. in law and the university's billiards championship, while working as a dining-car waiter; then to the Cleveland-Marshall Law School at night, where he obtained an L.L.B. while serving as a court probation officer during the day. He had married while he was a liquor inspector, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1956. In 1958 he married Shirley Edwards, an attractive Fisk University graduate in library science. They have...
Speaking on campuses in four states-at Minnesota's Macalester College (where Humphrey once taught), Harvard, and the universities of Michigan and Chicago-McCarthy reiterated his own oft-voiced objections to the war and his prescription for its end: gradual withdrawal. Beyond that, he repeated his major complaint that the U.S. is overextended around the world and must recognize "the limits of power," a phrase he used as the title for his latest book...
...other sport has expansion caused such confusion as it has in hockey. Last year there were six teams; this year there are twelve-with new clubs in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota and Oakland, as well as Los Angeles. All of the new teams, regardless of geographical location, are lumped together into a West Division, while all the oldsters, including the Chicago Black Hawks, are regarded as East. Regular-season team schedules go from October through March with 74 games, and what will happen when the Stanley Cup play-offs finally begin some time next spring is almost too frightening...