Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Titletown, U.S.A." If Devine seemed paranoid, he could hardly be blamed. In the four years since he abandoned a distinguished career at the University of Missouri to join the Packers, Devine has been the target of physical threats, personal insults and professional criticism. He has been sabotaged by assistants, undermined by owners, and harassed by hostile fans, who have literally pursued him and his family to their front door. Early one morning two years ago, the Devines were awakened by a sharp bang: one of their dogs had been shot outside the house. "It's been vulgar, malicious...
Afraid to Believe. For the most part, however, students seem unwilling to involve themselves directly in the U.S. political process. A recent survey showed that half of the students polled at the University of Missouri are not even registered to vote. At the University of Kansas, campus Democrats concluded after a poll that large numbers of students did not know that State Attorney General Vern Miller was a candidate for Governor, even though he had gained much notoriety for his flamboyant drug arrests of Kansas students. At the University of Wisconsin, says Tim Tully, 28, a graduate student and veteran...
...locked gate. During the summer he interrupted workouts to take helicopter flying lessons. For long trips, he bought a full-size Scenicruiser bus and refitted the inside as a plush mobile home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band radio frequency in Missouri recently were listening to none other than Muhammad All. "This is Big Bopper," Ali broadcast. "Watch out for Smokey Bear [truckers' code for a state trooper] at marker 139, westbound on Interstate...
...most optimistic predictions after the split last winter, even though far below the 650 enrolled before the controversy began. Acting President Ralph A. Bohlmann, who has been Preus' theological aide-de-camp, has fielded a full-time faculty of 18 (compared with four last spring). Meanwhile, the Missouri Synod's other official theological school, Concordia Seminary of Springfield, Ill., has an aggressive new president, the Rev. Robert D. Preus-Jack's brother and a conservative with impressive intellectual credentials. It also has its biggest incoming class (118) in years. All this suggests a strong allegiance...
...Seminex's 124 May graduates, 77 have already been placed in church work (only 21, however, have thus far been ordained). As for E.L.I.M.,. though it claims heavy clerical backing (1,827 members out of 5,100 North American clergy), financial support comes from only 296 of the Missouri Synod's 6,100 parishes. Still, it is enough: after subsidizing Seminex's first semester last spring, E.L.I.M. ended the fiscal year with a surplus...