Monday,  October 22, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 97 • 18 of 34 •  Other Editions

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Services announced for former Sen. George McGovern

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Services have been set for former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern.
• A public viewing is planned for 1 to 6 p.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls. Members of the McGovern family will be at the viewing from 5 to 6 p.m.
• A prayer service will follow at 6:30 p.m. at the church.
• Funeral services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday at Mary Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and

Science in Sioux Falls.
• A private burial will take place at a later date at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
• McGovern, who lost a 1972 presidential bid to Richard M. Nixon, died Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice. He was 90.
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McGovern candidacy a cultural landmark
HILLEL ITALIE,AP National Writer

• NEW YORK (AP) -- Abbie Hoffman sobbed that fateful night at the downtown Manhattan apartment of fellow activist Jerry Rubin. So did Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. John Lennon was drunk, and out of control, shouting "Up the Revolution!" in mock celebration of a dream defeated.
• It was November 1972 and George McGovern had just been whipped in a land

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