Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told a news conference two weeks ago that the U.S. was in Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college economics teacher, echoed the charge. Pundit Walter Lippmann adduced a more directly racial argument with a proposal that the U.S. "pull back from the Vietnamese mainland to continental islands inhabited by Western white men"-namely, Australia and New Zealand...
...happen to think it is." In light of the current debate about marijuana, the remark was unremarkable-except that it was made by Dr. James Goddard, head of the Food and Drug Administration. It came after a lecture on "business decisionmaking" at the University of Minnesota's Graduate School of Business Administration. Leading into the question-and-answer period, Goddard said he would talk about anything but marijuana. But the first question was about the drug, and Goddard proceeded to break his own rule...
...mystical and musical attraction, while LSD Guru Timothy Leary has slipped noticeably. Surprisingly enough, one of the most ubiquitous campus speakers among show business personalities is television's square old M.C., Art Linkletter, who has hit 20 campuses in the past two years, drew 3,500 University of Minnesota students to a talk on "The Pill and the Bomb" last February, and starts a tour of the Ivy League circuit this week...
Baltimore 20, Minnesota...
...KHOU's callers felt that the U.S. should end its involvement in Viet Nam; but a few nights later, 73% voted in favor of escalating the war. Said Program Director Dean Borba: "We're not quite sure what that means." James Pederson, secretary of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, feels that it means that "the polls aren't worth anything." He should know: he voted 80 times in a poll that pitted Johnson against Reagan-and the President still lost...