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...loads would be as displaced in Douglas Unger's first novel as they were in The Grapes of Wrath, though Ma, Pa and Tom might not understand how it was possible to become outcasts of national prosperity. For generations, the land around Unger's Nowell, S. Dak., has produced an abundance of wheat and corn. During World War II, a need for a fast, cheap protein spurs the Government to subsidize an increase in turkey raising. The larger output can easily be handled at the local processing plant, owned by Safe-buy, an early entrant in agribusiness. Eventually...
...Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed below zero for eight days in Omaha, ten days in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., three days in St. Louis. Much of the South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather historians saw parallels with dreadful pioneer winters. "This is decidedly the coldest December in Iowa," said State Climatologist Paul Waite. "It looks like it will...
...single taxi at Kansas City International Airport on Christmas Eve; 75 inmates at the Michigan State Prison in Jackson refusing to leave the mess hall because of cold cells. Yet as families huddled for the holidays, there were also moments of wonder. Jim Johnson, an undertaker in Parshall, N. Dak., was stunned one morning to see his thermometer reading - 56°. "I got the kids up to look at it, because they may never see anything like it again...
...wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill: at the exclusive annual Denver Debutante Ball, hardly an eyebrow was raised when the cellist put a down "jacket on over his tuxedo to play. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the A.A.A. was so swamped with pleas from stranded motorists that it was forced to take phones off the hook for three hours, only the third time it had done so in 15 years...
Traveling alone from Minneapolis to Rapid City, S. Dak., aboard a Republic Airlines Convair, Kennedy suddenly grew sick and dazed. Alarmed passengers near him reportedly summoned the flight attendant, who passed the word to the cockpit. The pilot radioed ahead to Rapid City to request that a paramedic and ambulance be on hand to meet the flight. When the plane landed, Kennedy was helped down the steps, but declined medical assistance...