Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilton, N. Dak. "He likes to do his own thing, so he is kind of hard to organize. We banded together out of necessity." Across the nation, hard-pressed Governors tried without success last week to find someone who could speak for the owner-drivers in their states. In Minnesota, Governor Al Quie gave up, declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. About 100 representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman of the shaky Independent Truckers Unity Coalition. But many of them walked out in anger over Hill...
Donovan came to Time Inc. with a magna cum laude degree from the University of Minnesota plus an Oxford degree acquired as a Rhodes scholar. He put in five years as a newspaperman in Washington, then most of World War II in the U.S. Navy. A 1945 personnel memo details these and other qualifications, going on to note that "young Donovan is a handsome gentleman of 31, with blue eyes, a level gaze, a deep voice and a serious manner enlivened by a quick smile." None of that description needs to be changed today, except, inevitably and unbelievably...
...Ottinger were Edward P. Beard of Rhode Island, Fortney H. Stark of California, John Conyers of Michigan, the only member of the quintet not to back Kennedy, and Richard Nolan, a onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...
...Minnesota, Congressman Nolan is planning to host later this month what may amount to a national convention of pro-Kennedy groups. In New York, State Attorney General Robert Abrams listened to Kennedy recite his well-rehearsed "I expect the President to be nominated and I expect to support his re-election" and then started making some plans for his own Draft Ted organization...
Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota suggests that most of the bulge in energy costs, caused by OPEC's recent boosts in world oil prices, will have worked itself through the economy fairly soon. Even though more increases are expected this year, he says, "I don't think the news ahead of us on oil will be as grisly as the news behind us." Heller also expects some relief on the food front by summer, though the price of beef will continue to be hefty while cattlemen rebuild their still skimpy herds. At the same time, production...