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...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...
...Including that of ex-Navy Yeoman Nelson C. Drummond, sentenced to life in 1963 for selling U.S. secrets to the Russians...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...
...least three quite distinct English traditions lay behind the Puritan settlers, Powell found. Men like Peter Noyes, a prosperous yeoman and the fourth largest landholder when he left the manor of Weyhill in southern England, brought with them centuries-old customs of open-field, cooperative farming and local government. Men like Edmund Brown, Cambridge graduate and Nonconformist minister, sprang from bustling, self-governing English boroughs and brought with them city ways and institutions. A strong minority of early Sudbury settlers like John Parmenter and Thomas Cakebread the miller were used to independently run, competitive, closed-field farming as then practiced...
...guards and U.S. military policemen shove and elbow each other for the right of way on sidewalks. Communists growl, "Kae seki [son of a bitch]" as they pass, spit at them or step on their toes. Reacting to such petty provocations, one 6-ft., 200-lb. U.S. Navy yeoman strolled up to a North Korean guardhouse and casually leaned against the door while the angry Communist soldiers inside tried in vain...