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When Chuck Percy, now 44, announced last summer that he would seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois, it was a safe bet that he would go after it furiously. He did. Hitting the campaign trail in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon," which was chuck-full with Percy, his wife and five kids and an eight-piece band, he rolled into every corner of the state, showed up at no less than 43 county fairs to pump acres of hands, spent 18-hour days plugging his candidacy...
...puts up a tent for campfire meetings that have no permanent worship center, helps recruit ministers from four churches-Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Disciples of Christ-to conduct services. Each meeting is backed by a local layman's association, which provides a campsite and the hearty food, cooked chuckwagon style. The Presbyterians now operate two circuits in ten states, expect to draw at least 21,000 people this summer...
...that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote that the city was civilized because "wherever you find polo, you find good clubs, good society and, usually, good tea." Nowadays, Colorado Springs (pop. 46,000) mixes manicured elegance with Western hospitality. Chuckwagon barbecues are more popular than polo, and uniformed men (from nearby Camp Carson and the Continental Air Defense Command) throng the scrubbed, tree-shaded streets. In the past five years the Chamber of Commerce has spent $50,000 for a campaign to land the Air Academy. The plush Broadmoor Hotel...
...last week a lot of embarrassed Denverites were getting fed up with the cowboy corn. One of them, a former Republican state legislator and oldtime cowpoke named R. M. Hagerman, wrote to the Denver Post and said so in words as hot as chuckwagon coffee...
Seasonal. In San Antonio, a sunburned Santa Claus refused to continue work in Joske's outdoor toyland until the store shaded his chuckwagon throne with an awning...