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...lost half of his right leg, Kerrey was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. As a member of the human rights commission in Lincoln, his home town, Kerrey is remembered chiefly for his unsuccessful advocacy of a homosexual-rights ordinance. Moreover, Republican Charles Thone, 58, was the quintessential Nebraskan of his generation, prudently plain-spoken and a bit stolid. He had won four terms in Congress before becoming Governor...
Much of the Soviet maritime marketing effort in the U.S. is bossed by Arthur C. Novacek, 50, a canny Nebraskan of Czech descent who is president of New Jersey-based Morflot American Shipping Inc. Moram, as the company is known, is a Soviet-owned agency for four of the 16 Soviet lines hauling cargo to and from the U.S. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Novacek was once president of Grace Line, then executive vice president of Seatrain Lines. He formed Moram in 1976, and now has a crackerjack sales force of more than 33 salespeople. Novacek runs...
...company business and is a frequent Graham dinner guest. "Intellectually, he dominates her," comments one editor who knows them both. "You remember how her orientation changed to talking about stockholders, profits and the bottom line? That's Buffett's influence." Israel is said to have resented the Nebraskan's growing influence with Graham. Both Graham and Israel refuse to discuss his departure. Said Graham last week: "If people say I murder and use arsenic I still won't comment...
...native Nebraskan, took a degree from Willamette University in 1958 and stayed on in Oregon as a cannery worker and member of the Teamsters Union. Entering politics, he served two terms in the state legislature as a Democrat, then switched and served a third as a Republican. Named director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality in 1971, this self-styled "concerned volunteer citizen" cleaned up the Willamette River by cowing the mighty Boise Cascade Corp. into shutting its Salem plant and seemed destined for political heights. But in 1973 he resigned and returned to his "first love...
Index Cards. But they march well together. Typical of McGovern's young minions is Gene Pokorny, 26, a scholarly Nebraskan who, says Campaign Manager Gary Hart, has "the mind of a revolutionist in the body of Henry Aldrich." Dispatched to Wisconsin a year ago on a salary of $200 a month, he tirelessly crisscrossed the state with clipboard and index cards in hand, organizing and opening 39 McGovern headquarters. When it was discovered that voting day fell during campus spring vacations, Pokorny ran forms in student newspapers which could be exchanged for absentee ballots. By election day an estimated...