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Congressional critics were angered by the announcements. "To say there's no corruption is ridiculous," said Michigan Congressman John Dingell, a leading investigator of Pentagon procurement. "The Navy is more anxious to get ahead with its spending goals than in spending well." Declared Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire: "The case is not closed just because the Navy says it is. I intend to look very closely at the whole matter in hearings this fall...
DIED. VERNE MEISNER, 66, Wisconsin's polka king, known for his melodic Slovenian, or Cleveland-style, sound; of melanoma; in Milwaukee. In the Badger State, where polka is the official dance, Meisner started performing at age 11, gaining fans at taverns and festivals with a boost from a local disc jockey, Fritz the Plumber. Meisner recorded dozens of albums and wrote 60 songs, including the hit Memories of Vienna...
...very fun race,” co-captain seven-seat Kristin Hicks said. “It was incredibly exciting and it was fun for us—we were pretty much dead even with Wisconsin. When you have three teams four seconds apart, it’s really anybody’s game...
With another two weeks before Eastern Sprints, the lights had the time to try and figure out how to beat Princeton and Wisconsin...
...Radcliffe fell just short, as Wisconsin took the race and the national title by about three-fourths of a length. Princeton edged out the Black and White for the silver by just over one and a half seconds...