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...January produced an Ayatullah Khomeini limerick ("too indecorous to quote," he says), and this month's Reagan cover story yielded a parody of an all-purpose campaign-trail press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong. I'm going to get crushed in that state. Q. If it's that hopeless, why are you flying back there after lunch? A. Well, we do have this afternoon to turn it around." Will Church...
...boiling drivers roll on dusty highways across brown and barren land, from one barren city to another. They crawl on the yawning landscape of I-90, looking to flatten turtles or to veer toward hitchhikers to "pump their blood a bit." They roll on the flatlands of South Dakota, the no-man's-land of the hitchhiker who ducks the graceful parabola of a flying bottle and faces a more than likely prospect of a night on the prairie...
...cruised at 4100 feet. He was a geologist at the University of Cincinnati and pointed out the geological characteristics of eastern Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. His expertise at pointing out the finer points of the brown and barren land exemplified the extraordinary character of pilots who pick up riders. Like all kind hearted pilots he flew with a placid grin and talked on topics ranging from the future of Teng Hsio-ping to the amount of coal in South Dakota. He was one of the elite of American travelers, who moved not necessarily to see places but to feel...
Among his other maneuvers, Silvestri told a wealthy socialite in Washington that, as he apparently believed, the sheik in the Washington house would be willing to contribute to political campaigns. Quite innocently, it seems, she passed the word to South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler, whose forlorn try for the Republican presidential nomination was then still alive but in need of cash. Silvestri drove Pressler to the sheik's house, where the candidate assumed he was to meet some men who had formed a legal political action committee. But when Pressler asked about their PAC, he was astounded...
...South Dakota Senator George McGovern, who favors less military spending, described the speech as "a good and constructive effort." Florida Democrat Richard Stone, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on the Near East, said that Carter outlined "a clear containment doctrine, and, if it means what it implies, it is the strongest statement that any President in recent years has made." By contrast, House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona accused Carter of "rattling the scabbard without anything in it." Said Senate Acting Minority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska: "If the Carter Doctrine had been in effect before Afghanistan...