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...convictions, but he gradually adjusted his style to the courtly atmosphere of the Senate. Just how well he had adapted was evident in the hours after his campaign plane crashed two miles from a small airport last Friday 175 miles north of Minneapolis. (Also aboard were Wellstone's wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three campaign-staff members and two pilots. There were no survivors.) "Despite the marked contrast between Paul's and my views on matters of government and politics," said Helms, his onetime nemesis, "he was my friend...
...death. Speaking at a news conference with Senator Edward Kennedy, Mondale said, "If Paul were here, he would want us to think about one thing, and that is to carry on the fight that he led with such brilliance and courage over all of these years. And Paul and Sheila, we intend to do that...
...Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter of Kentucky coal miners, and, after getting his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, moved to Minnesota to teach at Carleton College. It was there, in 1974, that he had his first brush with politics; informed by the college administration that he would not be retained owing...
...charter plane carrying Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers and two pilots, went down in a wooded area near Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 175 miles north of Minneapolis. All eight passengers were confirmed dead. Wellstone was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker. The plane, identified as a King Air, is a twin-engine turboprop made by Raytheon...
...Jane Kim ’05 and Brian C. Grech ’03; from Dudley House, Weisbard; from Dunster House, Agarwalla, Andrew C. Crocco ’03 and James T. Berylson ’04; from Eliot House, Michael R. Blickstead ’05, Sheila R. Adams ’05 and Amanda E. Kowalski ’03; and from Kirkland House, Matthew W. Mahan ’05, Michael S. Ovadia ’03 and Mary Ellen R. Player...