Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pulverized Prestige. Stunned by the G.O.P. showing, the Democrats reacted with initial incredulity. "I imagine it's a sort of standoff," said Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his coattails shredded and his prestige pulverized by a near-total G.O.P. sweep in his home state of Minnesota, was more candid. "Misery loves company," he said...
Typical of the books' approaches are their opening sentences on articles on Minnesota. "Minnesota is one of the chief food-producing states in the United States," says World Book. "Nature has been good to Minnesota. It has given the state many resources for work and play," carols Compton's. "Minnesota is a north-central state near the center of North America," states Britannica. "A train of two-wheeled carts screeched and rumbled along the dusty trail," coaxes Book of Knowledge. Britannica's brevity shows in its listing of well-known Minnesotans; it is the only book...
...sooner had Minnesota lent Kamisar to Harvard as a visiting professor in 1964, than the University of Michigan hired him for the year after. No matter. Like a Bronx Socrates, he harangues entranced students in thunderous tones that surely reach all three campuses. Kamisar has two passions: "translating" how Supreme Court decisions affect all Americans' liberties-and blasting polemicists who accuse the court of "coddling criminals." A dangerous counterpuncher in any argument, Kamisar plays no favorites: he has fought American Law Institute conservatives who sought tough model rules of police questioning, while he "gags" at Supreme Court Justices...
...MINNESOTA GOVERNOR 33% of the vote Rolvaag (D) 280,000 LeVander (R) 276,000 U.S. SENATOR Mondale (D) (winner) Forsythe...
Faculty members place too much emphasis on money, he claims. During his six years at Minnesota he wrote about a dozen books and received only $12.43 in grants. He is accordingly unimpressed when told of huge grants. "The correlation between the amount of money spent for research and the significance of the results of that research is either non-existent or negative," he says...