Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismay over Carter and his most recent actions runs the gamut of society. Florian Keen, 57, a setup man at a Davenport, Iowa, pump factory where he doubles as chairman of U.A.W. Local 1442's political action committee, said, "I'm real bothered." Though he wears a green and white Carter button, Keen said, "I'd lose an election if I were running for local office and was seen wearing this button. That's how unpopular Carter...
...dismayed and worried are many Democratic Party activists that the phone lines from Chicago to Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan have been humming all week. The old Democratic hands suddenly fear that the party could be stuck with Carter facing Republican John Connally. And they're convinced that Connally would win. "They're scared stiff," said an insider. "They're trying to see if they can generate an alternative candidate in the event Ted Kennedy doesn...
...South First Street in Greenfield, Iowa, and left a few yards around the town square, then turn in to the Ideal Café, and toward the back at a couple of tables any workday morning about 9:30, you will find a genuine American grass root...
Included in the 18 who lost subsequent bids for election was Dick Clark, the highly respected liberal Senator from Iowa who fell victim to a right-wing, right-to-life attack. Bill Baxley, crusading attorney general of Alabama, lost a race for Governor; Luther Hodges, successful bank chairman, lost a Senate primary in North Carolina to a man who outspent him 20 to 1; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers...
...Edward Stone, 43, is the chief scientist for the highly successful Voyager 2 space probe that last month sent back invaluable data on the ring around Jupiter. A cosmic ray physicist born in Iowa and educated at the University of Chicago, Stone teaches at Caltech and directs 100 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is now working on a 1983 "solar-polar" mission that will orbit two satellites in opposite directions around the sun's poles. The aim: to learn more about how energy flows from the sun and affects the earth's environment. Says Dr. Bruce Murray, director...