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...saving energy, George!" In Sioux Falls, half a dozen strangers greeted him on the street as if he were an old friend. That night, as he walked unobtrusively by the bleachers during a high school football game, teen-agers shouted: "Hey, George!" At 58, George McGovern is probably South Dakota's best-known and, on a personal level, best-liked politician. Nonetheless, this year McGovern is in trouble because many of the same constituents who think he is so personable have decided that he is too liberal...
...opponent, conservative Republican James Abdnor, 57, a bachelor wheat farmer and popular four-term Congressman, maintains that McGovern has lost touch with South Dakotans. Says Abdnor: "I'm the first working farmer off a tractor that South Dakota ever sent to Washington. I represent the mainstream." Abdnor favors Government price supports for farm products and a stronger national defense, but less Government spending on social welfare programs-all popular stands in the state, where nearly 25% of the 689,000 people live on farms...
...campaign that belies his reserved style on the stump. He reminds voters that he, too, is a fervent backer of farm price supports, that he is the No. 2 Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and that he supports increased benefits for the elderly (more than 17% of South Dakota's population is over 60, one of the highest percentages in the nation). He makes no apologies for being a liberal, which he defines as "one who believes the power of the U.S. Government ought to be thrown on the side of ordinary people...
...William Styron doesn't like people from places he's never heard of, like South Dakota [Aug. 25]. What does he have against some of the most honest, intelligent, friendly, hardworking and patriotic people in the U.S.? We're tired of being the brunt of "nowhere" jokes...
...explored is the Western Overthrust Belt, a geological formation of petroleum- and gas-bearing rock running from Canada to Mexico. Other new drilling in the mainland U.S. is under way in the Tuscaloosa Trend of Louisiana, the Permian Basin of West Texas, the Williston Basin of North and South Dakota and Montana, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico...