Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Image to Shuck. To try to shuck his loser's image, Nixon hopes for accelerating primary triumphs in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Oregon and Nebraska. His aides say that he may also enter other state primaries against favorite-son Republicans. Nixon forces are banking, optimistically, on a first-or second-ballot victory at the convention...
...LINEBACKERS: Fred Carr, 21, Texas at El Paso, 6 ft. 5 in., 232 Ibs., Wayne Meylan, 21, Nebraska, 6 ft., 239 Ibs., and Mike McGill, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs. "You won't believe this guy," a scout says of Carr. "He runs 40 yds. in 4.6 sec.-which is the speed of a lot of flankers in this league." Another scout calls Carr "the best foot ball player I've seen this year"; a third predicts that he will be the first player picked in the pro draft. Meylan...
...enough to make every Cornhusker huff-if not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly...
Actually, they said, only 1% of the state's 77,227 sq. mi. has gone to pot-and neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) announced yesterday that he will seek the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination in at least four presidential primaries. He will run in Wisconsin, Oregon, California, and Nebraska...