Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House conference. But the major goal of that conference is really intangible: to turn as many private citizens as possible into amateur Horace Manns. The preparations alone are achieving some of the objectives. One such amateur is Farmer Alvin Massman, who spearheaded a conference in Battle Creek, Neb. Says he: "We got people interested. The meeting adjourned at 4, but at 5 there were still several standing around talking. Considering that they were all farmers who had chores to do, that's something. And at every farm sale or any place farmers have met since, it was brought...
...farmer who has learned to buy machines and make them pay. With bigger crops from his machines and a good income, he can afford to pay high land prices to buy more acres, make more money, and thus buy still more land. Ten years ago Willard Wedberg of Fremont Neb. had two hired hands to help work 320 acres of corn land! Last year, with bigger and better cultivators and tractors he farmed 520 acres with only one part-time helper...
...lost during the Korean war-had been abruptly "deported." Colonel Heller, commander of an F-86 Sabre-jet squadron, had been imprisoned for 28 months; Captain Harold Fischer Jr., 28, of Swea City, Iowa, an F-86 flight commander, for 38 months; Lieut. Lyle W. Cameron, 26, of Lincoln, Neb., F-84 fighter-bomber pilot, for 31 months; and Lieut. Roland Parks, 25, of Omaha, F-86 pilot, for 33 months. From the bridge to freedom at Lo Wu, Air Force officers escorted the four pilots to the comfortable Fan Ling Jockey Club in Hong Kong. There, Lieut. Parks flopped...
...farm girl from David City, Neb., Ruth was singing in obscure Chicago nightclubs when she first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato...
Exams and schedule commitments have forced the Department of Athletics to decline invitations to this competition, the winner of which will play in the NCAA championships scheduled for June 10-14 at Omaha, Neb. During this time the varsity plays Commencement games with Amherst and Tufts on June 10 and 11, anl Yale on June...