Word: wausau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine consecutive terms on Capitol Hill before he moved to the Pentagon. Thus, as the G.O.P. nominee in a special election held last week to choose Laird's successor, State Senator Walter J. Chilsen felt pretty good about his chances. Chilsen, 45, a former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather imprudently billed his campaign as "a referendum on the Nixon Administration." That was hardly the case, but his coattail reference may well haunt the G.O.P. While Chilsen conducted a languid campaign, Democratic State Assemblyman David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee) ran at full throttle...
Chilsen later conceded gamely that "there was overconfidence from Washington to Wausau." Overconfidence was certainly not one of Obey's deficiencies during the race-or later, for that matter. The morning after his victory, Obey was at the gates of the Wausau Paper Mills plant in nearby Brokaw at dawn to thank workers for their votes...
GEORGE JOHNSON Wausau...
...Wausau, Wisconsin
Gold Lamé Trademark. When he debuted 25 years ago, Liberace was just the piano man (under the stage name Buster Keys) in a cocktail lounge in Wausau, Wis. His father, a French-horn player once in the Sousa band, thought that Wladziu might be better suited to undertaking.* But Liberace thought of himself as a prodigy, dropped his first two names in imitation of his idol, Paderewski, and within 14 years matched the Polish master in one respect: they are the only pianists in the world who have filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...