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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...
Chowing Down. Warmer traditions do survive. In the small Mississippi town of Indianola, there were plenty of home-cooked casseroles and ham and turkey platters at the rehearsal dinner before the May 24 wedding of Ann Delinda Thompson and Kenneth Orlando Thomas, both 25. The food was prepared by friends and neighbors and certified good enough to compete with any catered affair. Even the cake was made locally, although it was the kind of extravaganza that looks like an honors project at a baking school: three small cakes surrounded a central four-layer job, with stairways from level to level...
...Indianola he paid his respects to the crossroads, the spot where the Southern crosses the "Dog" (the interchange of the Southern Railway and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, also called the Yellow Dog, and now the Illinois Central). It was here, legend has it, that W.C. Handy composed Yellow Dog Blues while waiting for a train...
...last Friday, Jimmy Carter arrived at the 1,600-acre farm in Indianola, Iowa, 16 miles outside Des Moines, to spend the night as a guest of Farmer Woodrow Wilson Diehl and his wife Mary, It was the President's second overnight visit with an American family-and the Diehls' second visit from a President. In 1966 Lyndon Johnson stopped by for a few hours to look over Marywood, one of Iowa's showcase farms, on his way to a Democratic fund raiser in Des Moines...