Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nebraskans went for Nixon, but they are mighty proud of Kennedy's young man: Theodore C. Sorensen, 33, the sharp Nebraska lawyer who is the President's close adviser. Last week, at a dinner in McCook honoring the late Republican Senator George W. Norris, Sorensen returned the compliment with a stinging lecture. Subject: Nebraska as an "educationally depressed area...
...proportion of high school graduates has long ranked high and illiteracy low among all the states of the Union-education is no longer a prime concern. Budgets are cut. Federal aid is opposed. Teachers and faculties are harassed and underpaid." The result is "a steady exodus of young people." Nebraska is "old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place...
...words of park officials, is "blowing sky high." In Georgia alone, the "camper days" (number of campers multiplied by number of days camped) are expected to jump 15% over last year's 1,362,000. ¶In the Rocky Mountain national forests of Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, 2,000,000 appeared last year; in 1961, 100,000 more are expected. ¶In the camp-crazy hot spots of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, where visitors logged 2,000,000 camper days last year, the 1961 projection indicates another 200,000. The number of campsites...
Died. Henry Doorly, 81, dour, conservative, longtime boss of the Omaha World-Herald, which was the city's third-ranking paper when he was hired as a reporter in 1903, became its only daily and the most powerful paper in Nebraska during his tenure as publisher from 1934 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Omaha...
Open to Argument. Arriving in California at age 17 with $80 in his pocket, Nebraska-born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even...