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Many Republicans who are planning to run for office are doing their best to disguise their Republicanism. New Hampshire Congressman Louis C. Wyman, who is campaigning for the Senate seat of retiring Norris Cotton, is playing down his party affiliation. "This seat belongs to the people, not to any particular party," says a Wyman aide...
...that desert region are talking mostly about the effect the power plant is having on the once beautiful vistas that the crystal clear air afforded. In rural Arkansas, residents are talking about the effect which the power plant is going to have on their economic livelihood. Rural Arkansas is cotton and soybean country, and scientific studies have long ago demonstrated the susceptibility of cotton and beans to damage by extremely low levels of sulfur dioxide in the air. The farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou don't want to see their means of making a living destroyed...
...hospitalized briefly on the eve of her wedding. Sue Lyon's ailment: strep throat and fatigue brought on by the hassles of arranging her marriage to a Colorado State prisoner, who is serving 40 years for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Sue first met Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 33, in 1970, when she visited a friend who was sharing Gary's cell in a Los Angeles County jail. Now she plans to campaign for prison reform, specifically for prisoners' conjugal rights. As she puts it, "God said to procreate. The prison system is going against the Bible...
...Oxford, he earned two degrees, then in 1934 returned to Oklahoma to practice law. In 1941, he enlisted in the Army as a private, emerging five years later a lieutenant colonel. Then, adopting the slogan FROM THE CABIN IN THE COTTON TO THE CAPITOL, he won election to Congress from Oklahoma's "Little Dixie" district, which borders on the late Speaker Sam Rayburn's district in Texas. Albert entered the House in 1947, the same year as freshmen Representatives John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon...
Food prices remain a pain in the pocketbook, and shortages of canned goods are showing up in the supermarkets (see box following page), but America's newly fat and happy farmers are jubilant. With the notable exception of cotton, which is expected to be 4% behind last year's crop, never before has there been so much to harvest. Midwest farms are producing such quantities of grain and golden soybeans that equipment dealers cannot get enough storage bins for them. Even though a month of above-normal rainfall slowed the start of the harvest in the grain belt...