Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...
...Rolvaag was embittered. "I got taken to the woodshed by my lieutenant governor," he said. And despite Humphrey's urgings of unity, the Governor would not rule out challenging Keith in the party primary in September. Any further D.F.L. feuding, of course, could only benefit Minnesota's Republicans, who at week's end had a marathon convention contest of their own before rallying around Political Novice Harold LeVander, 55, a South St. Paul attorney, as their gubernatorial candidate...
...Depraved Insanity." Minnesota-born Gus Hall, 55, the party's longtime "leading spokesman," delivered a three-hour, 30,000-word harangue that sounded strangely like a Molotov jeremiad from the '50s. He denounced the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam as "coldblooded imperialist aggression," "depraved insanity" and, in what was doubtless intended as the most formidable indictment of all, "moral degeneracy with no bottom." Then, contending that the party had "fought its way out of political isolation," he commanded the comrades to unite in a popular front with Vietnik and Negro groups to achieve "left unity...
Four awards went to Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Michigan State, Minnesota, Temple, Huron); U.N. Secretary General U Thant (Fordham, Windsor, Manhattan, Hamilton); U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg (N.Y.U., Brandeis, Catholic University of America, College of Jewish Studies); New York Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. (N.Y.U., Yale, West Virginia, Pace); and former U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel (Brandeis, Carnegie Tech., Clark, Providence). Last week's honorees...
...January the Federation of Harvard Territorial Clubs took up offices in the Union. The federation was made up of the Harvard Clubs of Minnesota, Pennsylvania. The Cotton Belt States, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Chicago. Lowell asked the assistance of the clubs in bringing "men from all over the country to Harvard and to take Harvard to them." Lowell outlined a new entrance examination designed to make Harvard more acessible to public school students from the south and west, and a Harvard Club scholarship program to make attendence at Harvard feasible for many more deserving students...