Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that night, just in time for the sort of late evening television news to which he was more accustomed. "This version," he says, "was also intensely local; it featured a series of scandals, murders, police corruption, and so forth. I sat there astounded. After the short trip to the Twin Cities, I suddenly realized that things did not have to be this...
...take his children walking to see woodchucks, mallards, chipmunks and an occasional fox. They feed pheasant on their lawn. The Paulsons attend church ten minutes away in downtown Minneapolis, and in the summers vacation on the thickly wooded shores of sparkling, uncrowded Gull Lake, 2½ hours north of the Twin Cities. "I feel fortunate," says Paulson, "that we can still taste the things that 50 years ago people took for granted...
...remains drawn to the land. Three times a year, he returns to the family farm near Harmony in the southeast part of the state. He loves to listen to the school-closing notices on snowy mornings to see if Harmony is mentioned. The small-town flavor of the Twin Cities appeals to him. As Harstad points out, he knows just about every one of the 2,500 lawyers there, either directly or indirectly. "I can walk two blocks," he says, "and meet five people I know...
...With the twin objectives of maintaining minimal academic offerings and increasing the quality of the faculty, Allshouse said, the council suggested the retention of faculty members in 54 newly defined job categories...
...loco driver boarding at Cook is Gary Carn He and his fireman, Peter Read, carry four days' provisions in a metal tucker box, which they keep in the locomotive cab. Carn stares down the twin ribbons of steel at a sea of green saltbush that reaches out in every direction to the circular horizon. No houses, no trees; only telephone poles rushing by at 60 m.p.h. interrupt his view. "We used to stop and let the passengers pick wildflowers," Carn says. "There are 7,000 different kinds...