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...outlook for growth is not promising. Labor unions in general are in trouble, and higher education now seeks ways to give more classroom instruction for less money. A year ago, when the union question was fought out in the University of Minnesota system, two small campuses in Duluth and Waseca, where the faculty wanted a voice on promotion and tenure, voted to join...
When he set out with his brother John and a mule donated by the Waseca Chamber of Commerce, some of the townspeople dismissed the caravan as "two asses and a mule." Kunst's wife recalled: "I kept expecting him to call from La Crosse and say 'Come over and pick us up.' " The first night the Kunsts made it 14 miles to Owatonna, then collapsed with sore feet in a city park. But gradually they toughened up and, equally important, became adept at hustling meals and lodging; they were presented with everything from cough drops...
John Kunst, then 25, was shot dead; David, with a bullet hole in one lung, flew home to Waseca to recuperate for three months. When he returned to Afghanistan to resume the journey, his companion was his other brother Peter, now 29. Refused per mission to cross China, the Kunsts trudged to Calcutta, then detoured to Australia...
...people of Waseca (pop. 6,700) had been preparing to hail David as a conquering hero. But when Kunst reached Nebraska last month, he began denouncing them to newsmen for their "hypocrisy, pettiness, self-righteousness and narrow-mindedness." The townsfolk have also been offended by his announcements that he often enjoyed female companionship along the way and has no intention of resuming his marriage or living in Waseca again. "I'm a social deviate, a radical, even a little crazy," he said recently. "I don't fit into anybody's pattern and I never will...
...week's end the mayor, the local Congressman and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who donated $250 to the trip, all stayed away from the welcome-home ceremonies. Nonetheless, more than 5,000 Wasecans were on hand as Kunst, clutching his blue rucksack, strode up to his starting point, the Waseca Cinema on State Street. There he swigged champagne, toasted the U.S. as "the best damn country I've ever been in," and ended his improbable odyssey...