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...some old McGovern '72 posters. This is the first new office George McGovern has had in eighteen years. The one he used to have, in the Russell Senate Office Building, belongs now to James Abdnor, the New Right Republican who won the 1980 election for senator in South Dakota...
...turns, naturally enough, to the New Right's role in defeating McGovern--and other liberal senators--in 1980. It was never easy for him to win elections in a conservative farm state, McGovern points out, and with South Dakota's voters already evenly divided, the New Right's sophisticated media campaign--hitting hard at McGovern's liberal stand on abortion--may have been decisive. The former senator seems genuinely hurt by the Right's effort to label him a "baby killer." "What really hurt me the most were people who I knew, who'd supported me in the past...
...American Scene story on Wall Drug Store in South Dakota [Aug. 31] brought back memories of our then college-student daughter sending home pictures of a main thoroughfare in Amsterdam. Amid the signs in Dutch was one standout in English: ONLY 5,280 MILES TO WALL DRUG, SO. DAKOTA...
...been publicly traded for just one year, has no track record for finding oil. It has obtained oil and gas leases for 750,000 acres in the Rockies, as well as for 46,000 acres in California's Imperial Valley. This month it will start drilling in North Dakota. But so far Eagle oilmen have never even sunk an oil or gas well...
...story of how his wife Dorothy penned some doggerel ("Get a soda, get a beer, turn next corner, just as near, to Highway 16 and 14, free ice water, Wall Drug") to attract thirsty motorists has assumed Arthurian dimensions in South Dakota. Remembers Ted: "We hardly got back to the store from putting the sign up before people started turning in." Before long, billboards sprouted along the highways in every direction; someone once counted 53 along a 45-mile stretch. G.I.s tacked up Wall Drug signs as they made their way through Europe in World War II. The same thing...