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Only one-sixth of "the rest of the state" lives on farms, contrary to Wisconsin's reputation as "America's Dairyland." The remainder -- just about half of the total population--lives in small cities and towns scattered throughout the state...
...Themes. In the final dervish week it was Humphrey who covered the most territory and made the most political mileage. Traveling in a rented bus, he drove furiously across rolling dairyland and rustic wheat country, punching endlessly at two themes: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson's hated farm program, and Jack Kennedy's early support of that program. Local lieutenants of Missouri's Stuart Symington-whose strategy calls for staying out of primaries-publicly threw their support to Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee...
...second row facing Judge Robert Dunne sat Cheryl's parents, Darrell Labrenz, 25, and his wife Rhoda, 20. They had been childhood sweethearts at Dalton (pop. 400) in Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election since 1936 about 90 of the town's 700 citizens turned out to vote, and re-elected big, square-set John Froelich the village president...
...three times governor) is a lieutenant colonel on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Brother Bob, whose Senate seat is good until 1947, discovered too late that the Progressives had not been sleeping but dying. Bob rushed back to Wisconsin, made two radio speeches, then bounced up & down the dairyland, spending a day each at 20 county seats. Never had he seen such apathy, he told friends. If the apathy continued, Young Bob might find himself again in the Republican Party, where Old Bob started from 20 years...