Word: minnesota
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These statements aroused the opposition of Yale Kamisar, professor of Law at Minnesota University. Kamisar sent a dissenting opinion to Sports Illustrated, and Fuller answered with a strong rebuttal. Repercussions around the country have loosed a flood of correspondence, though not all of it has been backed with such impressive credentials as Kasimar...
...denied that he had ever said any such thing. ¶ In Milwaukee, Averell Harriman, New York's ex-governor and onetime (1956) presidential hopeful, startled a group of local Democratic politicos with an announcement: "If I could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime...
...deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered that the U.S. ought to extend the test suspension for one more year...
...laughing," said lean, modest Gus Turbeville, 30, to his wife. An obscure University of Minnesota sociologist, Turbeville had just become the youngest U.S. liberal-arts college president. That was six years ago. Joanne Turbeville had something else to laugh about when she arrived at Northland College in remote Ashland, Wis. (pop. 10,000) on the shores of Lake Superior. Northland (enrollment: 175) was almost a ghost college...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...