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BORN: Sept. 19, 1935, Atlanta EDUCATION: Millikin U, B.S., 1957; John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1968 FAMILY: Wife, Connie Lupo; three children; three stepchildren RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1957; Army Reserve, 1957-63 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Illinois House, 1975-91; U.S.House 1991- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 766, Pontiac...
Whitacre had also been dogged lately by suspicions that he may have lied about his education. When Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, elected Whitacre a trustee in May, the school said he held a master's degree in business from Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School. In fact, Whitacre earned his M.B.A. last year through mail-order courses from Kensington University in Glendale, California. A Millikin spokesman said the information about Kellogg came from "Whitacre's office" at ADM headquarters in Decatur; that left open the possibility that the company, rather than Whitacre, had pumped up his resume...
...measure of the practical value of such lessons is that university drama professors, who used to scorn theme-park and cruise work, now often guide students toward it. Many performers at the Six Flags park in Gurnee, one of seven in the chain, are funneled there from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and what they learned in class helps them survive. "If you don't use proper vocal technique and warm your body up," says Diane Zandstra, 22, a Millikin graduate in her second summer at Gurnee, "you'll hurt yourself...
Died. Eugene Millikin, 67, longtime (1941-56) Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
...Colorado, Two-Time Loser John A. Carroll, 55, whose chances of defeating former Governor Dan Thornton appeared so slim that the Democratic National Com mittee declined to finance his campaign, hung together enough votes to win the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Eugene Millikin-a seat the Democrats cheerfully accepted as an unexpected gift...