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...popular Governor Wendell Anderson resigned in 1976 and was immediately appointed by his former Lieutenant Governor, Rudy Perpich, to the Senate seat vacated by Mondale, who had moved into the vice presidency. Anderson's impatient act of self-promotion was resented by many Minnesota voters. Then Perpich appointed Muriel Humphrey to fill the remainder of her husband's term. That meant the state's three top offices were being held by members of the D.F.L. who had not been elected to those positions...
Residents of northern Minnesota are strongly opposed to the bill, leveling much of their anger at its cosponsor, Representative Donald M. Fraser, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Muriel Humphrey. But they are also annoyed by Minnesota's other U.S. Senator, Wendell R. Anderson. He had been counted on to champion fewer restrictions in the BWCA, but recently threw his support behind a tougher compromise bill, scheduled for a Senate vote this month, that also cuts back on the use of motorized vehicles...
Somosa? Ali? John Wayne? Fanne Fox? Muriel Humphrey? The Amazing Kreskin...
...most hotly pursued vote belonged to Minnesota's Muriel Humphrey. Vice President Mondale telephoned from Hawaii to make a personal appeal to the widow of his political mentor. On the other side, Humphrey's Minnesota colleague, Senator Wendell Anderson, argued strenuously that she block the sales. On Thursday morning, with the vote less than two hours away, Jimmy Carter himself called Humphrey to make a brief telephone pitch while the committee was in session. She told the President she had already decided to back the Administration...
...Muriel Snowden '38, co-director of Freedom House, Inc., a community service organization in Roxbury, and a member of the Board of Overseers, delivered the keynote address for the convention. C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law and acting director of the Du Bois Institute, spoke about the institute's activities...