Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainly pleased by his campaigning. On his way back East, he stopped off in Omaha to pay tribute to Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior in his Cabinet and now candidate for Governor of Nebraska in an increasingly close race with Democratic Incumbent Frank Morrison. What Kennedy needs in Congress, said Ike. is "a darned good influx of Republicans." What Nebraska needs, he added, is Fred Seaton as Governor-"the kind of Governor who will repel this assault on the rights of state and local government...
...still the junior Senator from Massachusetts. A new copy editor on the Lincoln, Neb.. Journal, she got the chance to chauffeur Kennedy, who had flown in to make a speech, back to the airport. Listening to her journalistic dreams (she studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where she made Phi Beta Kappa), the Senator idly promised to abet them if she ever came to Washington. Marianne promptly went there, and a surprised Kennedy wangled her a post as woman's editor of a suburban daily in the capital's Virginia environs...
...himself a scientist who commands the respect of his colleagues. Yet as a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he seriously considered becoming a poet. He got his love of language from his father, a little-known Shakespearean actor. His passion for science was roused by roaming the plains of western Nebraska, one of the world's finest Tertiary fossil beds. But anthropology alone seemed too narrow a field to his roaming mind, and he also studied biology and sociology in trying to understand the nature of man. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Eiseley taught his special brand...
Other Republican Senators, including Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Iowa's Jack Miller, grumbled that the resolution was too soft. Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers said it was only a "first step." In the House, New York's Republican Congressman John R. Pillion thundered that the resolution was "worse than no resolution at all. It scraps the Monroe Doctrine. It legitimizes a foreign regime in Cuba, telling it you can stay there unless you do this or that...
...first, no ill effects were reported. But then a cluster of three paralytic cases developed in Oregon within seven to 30 days after vaccination. Nebraska soon had three cases, Michigan and Ohio had two each, and New York had one. Two of these eleven victims were in their teens, but the others were aged 23 to 52. The available evidence, including complex laboratory tests, indicated that in four cases the disease was caused by the vaccine. About the others, the PHS experts withheld judgment...