Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DANFORTH'S SURGE. Going into the closing weeks of Missouri's Senate contest, moderate Republican John Danforth, 40, Missouri's attorney general for the past eight years, appears to be pulling away. A gangly (6 ft. 3 in.), ambitious politician who attended Princeton, Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School, Danforth has since 1968 helped to spur a brilliant Republican resurgence in the state which put into office in 1973 the current Governor, Kit Bond, the first Republican to hold that office in Missouri in 30 years. Attorney General Danforth has a deserved "Mr. Clean" image (TIME...
...doing The Missouri Breaks Marlon Brando, as bonkers bounty-hunter Robert E. Lee Clayton, finally got paid ($1.5 million, to be exact) to thumb his nose at the world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade...
Hurried Responses. While Chip was working California, Texas, Missouri and Ohio during the past week, his wife Caron, 25, who has a master's degree in early-childhood education, was touring Tennessee, Oklahoma and Kansas, even though she is expecting her first child in February. "I feel good and I want to do my part," she says, "but the campaign pulls one way and my doctor the other." She relishes the action, and after 18 months at it still cannot believe that she would ever be "out talking to hundreds of people about foreign policy...
...been brought in from other states to stand above local rivalries). Moreover, Carter may be hurt because in a number of contests for Senator or Governor, Republicans have fielded strong candidates or Democrats have fielded weak ones. This is the case in California, Illinois, Rhode Island, Indiana and Missouri...
...Missouri, the University of Minnesota, and many large Midwestern universities, for example, prohibit professors from using textbooks that they've written. There are a few instances of professors working their way around this rule--and then, only under the condition that the publishers set aside the royalties from these books and donate the money to scholarship funds...