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...Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, 58, who made millions manufacturing cleaning products (including Glass Wax) in North Dakota before coming to Washington, plans to stay and may well shop for a business...
When Robert Martin, South Dakota's director of economic development for the past nine years, died of a heart attack last month at 52, few of his co-workers could recall much about him. A quiet, polite man with thinning hair who invariably wore conservative slacks and sports jackets, Martin seldom socialized with his staff and never brought his wife to state functions, apparently preferring to spend all his time with his family. But within a few days of his death at his home in Pierre, the state capital, Martin's fellow employees found out to their astonishment...
Like some Main Street version of Alec Guinness in a Midwest remake of The Captain's Paradise, the taciturn bureaucrat for years had secretly been supporting two separate families in two South Dakota towns some 200 miles apart: Pierre (pop. 10,300), where he maintained both a branch office and a modest house in a neat, middle-class neighborhood, and Sioux Falls (pop. 79,800), where he had his main office and a flat in an apartment complex known as the Tally...
...Dignity. The state also had a few questions. South Dakota Attorney General William Janklow wants to know whether Martin falsified his expense vouchers to maintain his two wives, nine children and two homes; his annual salary was only $23,500. Janklow is ready to ask a grand jury to investigate Martin's accounts, which, among other things, generally list the Tally-Ho as lodging at $11.50 a night...
...Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat with an awesome organization, overwhelmed his G.O.P. opponent by a nearly 2-to-l margin. Among the other intriguing victors...