Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican gathering in Hastings, Neb., Illinois' junior Senator, Charles Percy, made the expectable gibes at Bobby Kennedy and the familiar pleas for party unity. Though he is a liberal on most issues, and at 47 a symbol of the G.O.P.'s rising generation, Percy heaped praise on Nebraska's venerable conservative Senators, Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-with whom he had just parted company over ratification of the Soviet consular treaty. "I've learned a lot by listening to them," professed Percy. "Even when we don't vote together, we walk out of the Senate...
Died. Arthur Lewis Miller, 74, longtime (1943-59) Republican Congressman from Nebraska, a practicing physician-turned-conservative legislator who devoted his career to fighting what he considered "socialist giveaways" such as foreign aid, public-power projects and all welfare programs; of heart disease; in Chevy Chase...
Double Indemnity. "There are more of these that we suspect are suicide than we care to say," says John McCleverty, director of the Cook County, Ill., traffic commission. "But we simply don't know." Adds Colonel Dan Casey, chief of the Nebraska safety patrol: "We may have the feeling a traffic death may have been a suicide, but we need proof." Yet one figure, circumstantial as it may be, stands out. Though all auto deaths have increased by 32% in the past ten years, single-car fatalities that result from collisions with fixed objects-the most likely form...
Kinseyan Revelation. "The whole thing," says London Observer Columnist Katharine Whitehorn, "is a midwestern Methodist's vision of sin." She is absolutely right. Hefner's parents, Glenn and Grace, had been childhood sweethearts in Nebraska before they married and moved to Chicago. Glenn, an accountant who is now treasurer of Playboy, was and is a regular Methodist churchgoer; so is Grace. In his early years, Hefner was the kid across the aisle in school who was always scribbling sketches. He liked to write up the doings of local kids for a neighborhood newspaper, and drew 70 cartoon strips about ornery...
...Vista-Domed Zephyr is so scheduled that it affords a better daylight glimpse of scenery than any other transcontinental U.S. train. The westbound passenger leaves Chicago in midafternoon, sleeps his way across the Nebraska plains, spends the next day traveling through the fir forests and deep gorges of the Colorado Rockies, sleeps the second night as the train rolls through the Nevada desert, wakes up on the final morning in California's breathtaking Feather River Canyon. En route, the train serves good, moderately priced food in dining cars that sport vases of fresh carnations at every table. Not surprisingly...