Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argues that at least 80% of welfare recipients now on the rolls who receive food stamps would be worse off under the new Nixon plan. Capitol Hill quickly supported Kramer's criticism. Senator Javits attacked the food-stamp restriction, and South Dakota's Senator George McGovern and Minnesota's Senator Walter Mondale rapidly petitioned the President to retain the stamps for welfare recipients. Last May, Nixon proposed a $1 billion annual increase in spending for the federal food program for the poor. The White House's present position against giving food stamps to family-assistance recipients...
...five or six times in the stomach. Then I hit him in the head, and when he came off the wall I hit him again. He was out before he hit the ground." Mike Hammer? Not quite. That was Manager Billy Martin talking about a fraternal misunderstanding among his Minnesota Twins, baseball's bad boys who have recently been trying to reform (TIME, Aug. 15). Martin, no stranger to donnybrooks during his playing days as a New York Yankee, explained it this way: the boys were sitting around a bar in Detroit hoisting a convivial glass when Dave Boswell...
Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone was always grousing about himself or conditions on the team." Suddenly, it is the other American League clubs that are doing the grousing-about Minnesota. With polished thievery on the base paths to complement their power at the plate, the Twins are leading the league's Western Division...
...recent doubleheader at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins subjected the faltering Detroit Tigers, the defending world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the process, he gave up his first home run of the year, a line shot by Minnesota Second Baseman Rod Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew...
...justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College in Minnesota, says of his one-month exposure to the streets: "I have been turned inside...