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...election issue this year: the farm crisis. Class of '80 members who are favored to win -- Wisconsin's Robert Kasten, Iowa's Charles Grassley, Indiana's Dan Quayle, Oklahoma's Don Nickles -- have tried to distance themselves from Reagan's farm policies. But their colleague, James Abdnor of South Dakota, fumbled the farm issue and subsequently found himself fighting an uphill battle for re- election...
...South Dakota, where only three percent of seniors take the test, posted the highest average combined score of 1098--567 math, 531 verbal. South Carolina had the lowest average--431 math, 395 verbal, 826 combined--but 49 percent took the exam...
...gimmicks to get their messages, and their names, across to a frequently indifferent public. In person and on television, New York's little-known Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew O'Rourke is using a cardboard cutout of Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo to deride his popular opponent as "one-dimensional." South Dakota Congressman Tom Daschle, a populist Democrat hoping to unseat incumbent Senator James Abdnor, juxtaposes shots of long, gleaming limousines purring around Washington with , pictures of his own 1971 Pontiac wearily chugging toward the Senate Office Building...
Born in North Dakota in 1933, Rosenquist backed into being a painter through grass-roots advertising: he started painting Phillips 66 signs for a Minnesota paint contractor and gradually moved up to supporting himself as a billboard artist in New York City in the 1950s. Turning out these mammoth images, high above the city streets, had the most obvious connection to his later art: the problem of how you make something that looks perfectly realistic a quarter- mile away when you are close up against it and cannot see it as a whole. The huge fragmentary paintings...
Last week in two other primary preludes to crucial Senate elections, the results seemed to bode well for Democrats. In South Dakota, incumbent Senator James Abdnor fended off a challenge from retiring Governor William Janklow in the Republican primary; he will face the popular four-term Congressman Tom Daschle, the state's lone representative in the House. At Daschle headquarters, his campaign workers applauded Abdnor's victory. They felt the tough-talking Janklow would have been a more formidable opponent...