Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creating a county-agent-style welfare service to help deprived or undereducated city dwellers, increase middle-income housing construction, and float a $2 billion bond issue to improve New York's transportation systems-both transstate highways and the critical mass transit network in traffic-clogged New York City. Minnesota's Le Vander proposed a Metropolitan Service Council that would amalgamate the management of problems including everything from city sewage disposal to mass transit to parkland development around the 1,600,000-population area of Minneapolis-St. Paul...
...publishers, who awarded their $15,000 Thomas R. Coward Prize to this first novel, call it "unquestionably the most authentic prison novel ever written." No questions are likely. The author wrote his book while serving 6½ years of a 10-to 80-year robbery sentence in a Minnesota jail. He was also a captive researcher at the Walla Walla State Prison (4½ years, burglary) and at San Quentin (three years, robbery...
...Frank Elli, now 41, had been in the pen on one rap or another eleven times since he was mustered out of the Navy 20 years ago. Apparently it occurred to him late that crime was not his true calling. Through a correspondence course offered by the University of Minnesota, Elli discovered that he had a greater talent for writing. The resulting novel, a tense, minute-by-minute account of a prison riot, shows that he has a born storyteller's way with a yarn...
...people, you win." No fancy offensive formations for him, no kamikaze blitzes on defense. "You always know what those goddam Packers are going to do," says a rival coach, "but you still can't stop them - they never make mistakes." Well, almost never. "I remember that game against Minnesota last year," says Lombardi, "when we had a 7-0 lead early and went right down again to fourth and one for the goal, and decided to go for the touchdown instead of the field goal, and we fumbled...
...maybe a pair of antlers. Could any one mistake a 13-year-old boy, dressed in a red hat and red jacket and driving a blue and white snowmobile, for a deer? A Minnesota hunter did just that last month and shot the boy dead. In Maine, Edwin Horr, 60, was sitting on a rock, smoking, when he was shot - in the right knee, left calf and left thigh - by a myopic marksman who thought that the smoke of Horr's cigarette was the rump of a white-tailed buck...