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Lettuce Sandwich. Party labels are no guideposts to the spenders. In South Dakota, Ralph Herseth, first Democratic governor in 22 years, quickly tacked another third to the budget increase suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...
...margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered the liberals as a compromise. But even as Kansas' Schoeppel stood to spring the Mundt nomination. Bridges genially drifted...
...barriers designed to protect domestic industry cast a pall of uncertainty over Canada's oil future, should be revoked. "If oil is needed for defense, there is no legitimate distinction between the wells of North Dakota and Texas, of Alberta and Saskatchewan...
...industry towns had some rough months. In Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor is not just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher and the department stores of Cedar Rapids, Iowa were 4.5% ahead of last year. In the South, where new industry was moving in 50% faster than last year, most of what was known about the recession...
...Moines Register (circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ. 128,824) and Sunday Register (circ. 515,599) blanket Iowa like the state's fertile black topsoil; the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 208,236), Star (circ. 290,960) and Sunday Tribune (circ. 630,035) sell throughout Minnesota and North and South Dakota, cut a swath through western Wisconsin...