Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Wisconsin-trained Soviet apologist, Gunawardena used his powerful position to force nationalization of Colombo's port and bus systems and collectivization of many of the island's fertile paddy fields. Now he was setting up an island-wide system of cooperatives frankly dedicated to his declared objective: "All private enterprise must totally disappear...
...five-day tour took Aitchalal and Taleb to South-western University, Le Moyne, an all-Negro college in Memphis, the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. Sponsored by NSA groups on each campus, they spoke in French to sparse audiences comprised mainly of foreign students, Africans, and French majors anxious to show their facility by painfully framing their questions in ungrammatical French. I shared the podium with them as translator...
...Bunting became the dean at Rutgers in 1955. A Vassar alumna, she had previously taught at Bennington, Goucher, and Yale. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Wisconsin...
Douglas answered his own question by suggesting the use of a nonslip floor polish. With that, Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire (who hails from the state where Johnson's Wax makes its home) offered to let Douglas use his office for a waxing bee. Few days later, Washington newsmen and TV crews crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers...
Massachusetts' Kennedy is ahead. He is confident of winning primaries in Wisconsin and Oregon, but is loath to tangle in California unless he must. On the other hand, there is no room on Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy's ticket for Catholic Brown. In Los Angeles last week Kennedy pooh-poohed the notion that he would oppose a favorite son. But Kennedy is aware that he will have to win the nomination early to win at all, may be tempted to change his mind, and go after California's 76 votes...