Word: rolvaag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...
...Humphrey put together in 1944. In a sense, the D.F.L. has been damaged by its very success. One by one, its brightest luminaries-Humphrey, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Senators Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale-have gone off to Washington, leaving the party's fortunes in less gifted hands. Rolvaag, for example, was the earnest but lackluster lieutenant governor in 1962 when he won the D.F.L. nomination for Governor simply because there was nobody else to challenge Republican Incumbent Elmer L. Andersen. To everybody's surprise, Rolvaag won by 91 votes after a recount that took three months...
Balding, dumpy and an ineffectual public speaker, Rolvaag has introduced progressive programs but has earned a reputation as bumbling and indecisive. When polls showed last year that he could not win in 1966, D.F.L. leaders asked the Governor to step down as a candidate for reelection. On his refusal, party chieftains decided to turn to Keith, a lawyer and ex-athlete who grooms his hair Kennedy-style...
...once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment no higher than other businesses. One day after the election, in an indication of what was to come...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Interviewed at the Governors' Conference in Minneapolis: Governors Grant Sawyer of Nevada, Karl Rolvaag of Minnesota, John Connally of Texas, William Scranton of Pennsylvania, Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and Robert Smylie of Idaho...