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...ease the squeeze by a couple of notches while stations pursue traditional forms of PBS cup rattling like phone-in pledge periods, televised auctions and fund-raising galas, like upcoming previews of the film Annie, which will aid more than 125 PBS affiliates. Other stations are more adventurous: North Dakota Public TV is raising money through legalized gambling parlors. Most radical, though, is the thought of commercials on Public...
...threatened by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. But the moral crusaders may discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious to do battle for conservative social causes than they were when they were on the campaign trail. Says Senator James Abdnor of South Dakota, who defeated Democrat George McGovern partly by stressing social issues: "I resent that the New Right says they elected me. I'm not part of their crusade." His attitude on dealing with the proposals: "Let's get them over with...
...overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, to launch the Union party. Their puppet nominee for the presidency: Populist Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota...
Keillor loves names and hypnotizes himself by repeating them in the best long pieces in his book. There is the "North Dakota Prairie Queen, the jewel of the plains," a luxury train he invents in a reminiscence by a crazed old railroader. Dance bands played regularly on the Prairie Queen, and they had great names: "The Kolachy Brothers, the Big Pisek Hot Band, Cecil Pootz and His Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise...
...BONE-COLD MIDWEST The Plains states were frigid, even by local standards (22° in Omaha and Des Moines, -29° in Fargo, North Dakota), but the cold was no real surprise. "There are towns in North Dakota," explained one NWS meteorologist, "that haven't gotten above zero since the year began...