Word: wisconsin
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Garrity is a New Deal Democrat and has been closely associated with the Kennedy family. He worked in the Milwaukee headquarters of John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Wisconsin primary; a year later Kennedy appointed him U.S. Attorney. One of his assistants in that post was Kennedy's cousin, Joseph F. Gargan. In 1966, Ted Kennedy sponsored Garrity's nomination for the federal bench...
Driving to Rochester. Flying down Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills...
TACKLES. Dennis Lick, Wisconsin, 6 ft. 4 in., 262 lbs.; and Rod Walters, Iowa, 6 ft. 4 in., 260 lbs. The pros like Lick be cause he "sustains a block," keeping holes open for his running backs and protecting his quarterback for the extra second it often takes to break a big play...
...Harvard team basically adds to reseaach done by a number of other teams at the National Institute of Health and several universities. Bacterial genes were chemically synthesized in 1973 by an MIT team led by Har Gobind Khorana; Nobel Prize Winners Dr. Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin and David Baltimore at MIT first discovered the enzyme--reverse transcriptase--that was a keystone in the Harvard research; and three research groups--including one led by Baltimore--simultaneously produced one of DNA's two strands...
Though such incidents make Washington wives wary of saying anything, some rebel. Jean Lucey, wife of the Wisconsin Governor, told a demonstrating group of welfare mothers to get off their behinds and get jobs. The wife of one Southern Senator is joining the board of a black college to show her independence. And Betty Ford of the unpredictable opinion, is becoming quite a heroine to feminists...