Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor Frank Morrison of Nebraska, 60, a Democrat, announced that he would contest the Senate seat held by 'conservative Republican Sena tor Carl Curtis, 60, floor manager for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 G.O.P...
Senator Robert Kennedy, who certainly knew what he was talking about, pronounced the introduction: "I am satisfied that he possesses the qualifications." U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren smiled down from the bench, and with that, Ted Sorensen, 39, a lawyer (University of Nebraska) who became John Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. His memoirs behind him, Sorensen has joined the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which once had a partner named Adlai Stevenson...
...affairs and dean of faculties at Ohio State, who will succeed Ellis next August. Son of a former speech department chairman at the University of Wisconsin, Weaver holds a Ph.D. in geography from Wisconsin and has spent most of his career in Midwestern public universities, including Minnesota, Kansas State, Nebraska and Iowa. These schools, he insists, represent "the full flowering of the public land-grant concept-education, research and service combined...
...laughs and good money. From Herb Shriner to George Gobel to Andy Griffith, dozens have twirled the same line - and still left enough rope for their lineal descendant, Dick Cavett. In a Greenwich Village nightclub last week, Cavett, 29, recited the doleful tale of his country boyhood in Nebraska. The story, as he tells it, is comical enough, and perhaps just true enough to serve as his public autobiography...
...four years as a supplier, Cavett decided to be a do-it-yourselfer. Now he earns $1,000 a week on his own. With his laconic style and boyish innocence, he ought to go far. "I'll be happy," he says, "if I can just stay out of Nebraska...