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...logical sequence of contests, a few enterprising state party officials were able to seize the initiative. Iowa Democrats moved fastest, pushing their 1972 caucuses ahead of the New Hampshire primary. George McGovern, chairman of the first reform commission, understood the new dynamics well. The obscure Senator from neighboring South Dakota had both cultural affinity and the antiwar movement going for him in Iowa...
...cleverly crafted provision requiring the Government to buy $10 million worth of sunflower oil, courtesy of Democratic Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota. Budget cutters had defeated an earlier measure, but a new version of the sunflower subsidy program lay hidden in the bill's fertile soil...
...football's best teams meet in the playoffs, Madden's audience will approach 50 million people a broadcast. Like a rock star, he travels the country in a customized bus, the benefit of a glad-handing deal with Greyhound, and while in New York City, lives at the Dakota, the realm of Leonard Bernstein and Yoko Ono. He likes to hang out in front of the building in untied tennis shoes with pushed-in heels or to squeak along Columbus Avenue communing with the town. "The people," he says, "are the best theater in New York...
...James Abourezk, a former Republican senator from South Dakota who chairs the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said he supports the inclusion of the PLO in a conference because it represent the wishes of the Palestinian people...
Alaska-Anchorage, which was on top last week, narrowly missed upsetting both North Dakota (twice) and Minnesota this past month...