Word: wisconsin
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Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
William Morgan, a physical education professor and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, says that runners "can develop a sensation of omnipotence. They begin to feel invincible. They run through red lights, challenge cars at a light. Their behavior becomes absolutely bizarre to their peers. They begin running 100 to 120 miles a week." There is something resembling addiction here, and runners tend to become edgy when their exercise schedules are interrupted...
Beth Johnston and her roommate were still arguing about whether to take the bunkbed apart and sacrifice the limited floor space in their freshman dorm when Jeff Robinson knocked at the door. Eight years had lapsed since Jeff's family left the Wisconsin town Beth grew up in and she probably wouldn't have remembered him if she hadn't once seen him throw a water balloon at their Sunday school principal. Their families still exchanged Christmas cards and Jeff was dutifully obeying maternal commandment to "check up on little Bethie" during her first week at Harvard...
...merely a sort of hayseed genius of mechanics, he was the son of a populist Republican Minnesota Congressman and a schoolteacher, whose father, Charles Land of Detroit, was a distinguished dentist who invented porcelain caps for teeth. Lindbergh had lived in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Wisconsin until he dropped out midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying. At 25, he was tough, intelligent and probably the best pilot...
Last week the mighty J.V. maintained their record of no losses in their history with a strong finish which provided them with a resounding length and a half victory over an over-tough Wisconsin eight. "Last week was superb; this week was good," Julie Cobb said last night...