Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little-known Western regions of North America. He took along a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer to draw and paint what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were...
Part of the Democrats' difficulty is the lackluster floor leadership of Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield. A quiet, gentle man, Mansfield has notably failed to rally his colleagues behind Kennedy's programs. Explains one Democratic Senator: "Lyndon Johnson used to wring our arms out of their sockets; but then he'd give us a bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert...
...Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours after the session started, when North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young, still wearing his windbreaker, arrived...
...business. With World War II, the Webb company moved into the big time, built most of the air stations and military installations in Arizona and Southern California. Among current projects, he is building with George A. Fuller Co. a $62 million Minuteman missile silo complex in Montana, and with Humble Oil Co. is working on an estimated $375-$500 million community, covering 15,000 acres southeast of Houston, which will house the employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new center for manned spacecraft...
...Boykin threw a testimonial party for Texas' Sam Rayburn in a Washington hotel, invited just about everybody in the phone book. Winston Churchill cabled his regrets, but 900 others came to sample a score of cases of Scotch and bourbon, along with Quebec salmon, Alabama venison, Montana elk, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia turkey, and antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Boykin's all-for-love motto was bantered about the banquet hall. Everybody had a great time, and jolly Frank was delighted to fork over...