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...guessing is that Perpich will name Muriel Humphrey and she will accept...
...politics went on. Who will fill out the remaining four years of Humphrey's term? Three Minnesota Congressmen-Democrats Donald Fraser and James Oberstar and Republican Bill Frenzel-are gearing up for a special election to be held in November, concurrent with the general election. But Governor Rudy Perpich must appoint a successor to serve between now and November...
...like Robert Carlson, 58, a 20-year foreman at Reserve, who has almost finished paying off a four-bedroom house. "We couldn't afford to go anywhere else," he says. Silver Bay residents have taken some hope from the fact that Minnesota's new Governor, Rudy Perpich, has designated the Reserve case as his top priority. "It is extremely important," he says, "that we not only stop the pollution of Lake Superior but see to it that the people dependent on Reserve for their livelihood continue to have jobs." More months may pass before the Reserve case...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...
First Tie. Son of an iron miner, Perpich is a fire-and-brimstone populist from northern Minnesota. As a boy, he shared a bed with two younger brothers. He delights in recalling that on his wedding day in 1954, his father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota...