Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite his credentials, Milton's place in the Eisenhower Administration has been noisily misunderstood. Milton, cried Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, was "the real President of the U.S." Even Edgar Eisenhower, eldest of the four surviving Eisenhower brothers, has accused Milton of dragging Dwight down the primrose path of overliberalism...
...neolithic "Molly" Malone numbed Senate floor and galleries with a wandering diatribe against foreign aid that included lengthy quotations from George Washington, Karl Marx, Andrew Jackson and Molly Malone ("The Nevada air corps can lick any European nation"). While an early-finishing House sang Home on the Range, Wisconsin's freshman Democrat William Proxmire infuriated his Senate colleagues by plopping a 750-page report on his desk and earnestly threatening to filibuster, as Saturday midnight approached, against any thought of diverting Lake Michigan water to the Chicago sewer system...
Armstrong's toughest task will be to needle those states that have lagged behind building schedules (see map). Several states are bogged down because they cannot raise their own 10% contribution to match the Government's 90% outlay. Among the laggards: West Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho...
Died. Eyvind Laholm (real name: Edwin Johnson), 64, Wisconsin-born operatic tenor who sang in Europe for 14 years before making his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1939, was once Adolf Hitler's favorite singer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Wilce, 70, who piled up a record of 78 wins, 33 losses and 9 ties as football coach from 1913 to 1928, then gave up muscle nurture to practice medicine, has headed the university's health service since 1934. Himself a seven-letter man at the University of Wisconsin and an all-Western fullback in 1908. Dr. Wilce did more than any other coach to give Columbus a permanent football mania, led his teams to three Western Conference championships. He studied bone mending between sessions of bone breaking, earned his M.D. in 1919, went on to do research...