Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnesota Republican Rudy Boschwitz, who made his fortune selling plywood, claimed assets of between $5.5 million and $6.2 million...
...York Mets 66)The Washington Senators 67)5-0 68)Al Kaline, Norm Cash and Willie Horton 69)Gaylord Perry, Joe Niekro, Larry Christenson and Burt Hooton 70)The Orioles, Tigers(2), and Royals 71)The Cubs, Phillies, Giants, and Mets 72)Steve Busby 73)The Minnesota Twins 74)Ed Fitz Gerald 75)Floyd Giebell 76)Eddie Stanky 77)Johnny O'Brien...
There comes a time when even a Vice President would just as soon not demonstrate leadership. As when Walter Mondale flew back to Minnesota for the funeral of a longtime political friend. After the church service, Mondale's car shot off toward the Twin Cities airport, where Air Force Two was waiting. Following such a leader, the cortege went where he did. At graveside, confused relatives wondered what had happened to the band of mourners that had filled the church. The misled cortege was finally halted four miles out of town by a sympathetic policeman, who turned the cars...
...respect for a dollar that he continues to pump his own gas at a self-service station. But he generously donated $1 million to the drive, of which he is codirector, to raise $20 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is active in other charities and has finally delegated enough authority to set aside time for regular sessions of swimming and tennis. But the companies remain his passion. A pillow on Carlson's gold-striped sofa reads: "I love this business. Sit down and watch...
After the war Thomas became an "academic tramp." His momentum carried him away from the practice of medicine and toward research, teaching and administration. He wound steadily up the helix of professional advancement: research at Johns Hopkins, teaching at Tulane and the University of Minnesota. Back in New York, he moved through lower posts to become dean of the New York University medical school. In 1969 Thomas moved to Yale as a professor and chairman of the medical school's department of pathology; three years later he was named dean of the medical school. He left after a year...