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...squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers, who negotiated the deal: "Everything has worked to the letter." Now married to an American nurse, Nguyen has lived in Bridgeport for eight years and happily calls it home. "I never knew anything about Nebraska until I came here," he says. "I smelled the manure and got used...
Strongly encouraged by her father, Chicago Personnel Psychologist Eldon Wonderlic, Kolbe went to Northwestern, tried journalism, then moved with her husband and two children to Arizona. Dissatisfied with their education in Scottsdale, she decided to start a summer school of her own. "It has been written for centuries that thinking is important," she says, "but that is a lot different from saying, 'I have a method of showing how to do that.' " She wanted to teach children how to think creatively and critically, to use both the analytical left side of the brain and the more intuitive right side...
...most peripatetic of Congressmen, according to the report: ¶ Robert Badham, a California Republican, took nine trips in two years, seeing 29 countries, including Britain and Italy twice. ¶Frank Annunzio, an Illinois Democrat, visited Italy three times in two years, as well as eleven other countries. ¶Eldon Rudd, an Arizona Republican, made trips to the Far East twice, Latin America three times, Europe twice and an extended tour through Africa and the Middle East...
Like electronic images gobbling dots across a video screen, the PAC-men darted among the elegant rooms of the National Republican Club on Capitol Hill. At a fund raiser for Congressman Eldon Rudd of Arizona, they dropped their checks into a basket by the door or pressed them into the candidate's palm, before heading for the shrimp rolls and meatballs. Downstairs, other PAC-men crowded into a reception for Delaware Congressman Tom Evans, which featured piano music and White House luminaries. A few stopped in at the party for Deborah Cochran of Massachusetts. Because she is a long...
...powder covers the earth. Says Ed Grady of the state's farm bureau: "Our concern is that the frost may penetrate the ground more deeply than it would with a snow cover," thus damaging crops planted this winter. "This is about as dry as I can remember," observes Eldon Merklin, an Oklahoma farmer who planted 1,200 acres of wheat last month. "I had to plant some of it twice after it died because of lack of moisture." Adds South Dakota Agriculture Secretary Rodger Pearson, who reckons that his state's farmers lost $600 million worth of crops...