Word: indianola
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the press shows up en masse to cover "face-to-face" campaigning, only the pretense remains. Senator Bob Dole talks to a barnful of TV cameras and a few "lucky" residents of Indianola so the folks watching the news can see him talking to Iowa farmers (two-thirds of whom were college students bused in from Ohio to give the event a shot of adrenaline). It has all the authenticity of an infomercial audience whooping it up for the Veg-O-Matic at two o'clock in the morning...
...towns like Indianola, Miss. (pop. 12,000), the technology arrived just in time. One evening last month, the physician on duty at the South Sunflower County Hospital admitted a five-year-old girl who had miraculously survived a brutal car wreck. Apart from cuts and bruises, she seemed O.K., although tests showed that she had lost some blood. A year ago, a doctor might simply have kept her under observation. But the hospital had recently hired Teleradiology Associates, a group of radiologists based in Durham, N.C. Just to be safe, the doctor sent them a CAT scan of the child...