Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather or the garbage collection, you can roll right out. If the parking site at Paw Paw, Mich., palls, if tornadoes threaten Thunderwoman Park in Iowa, if Oso Ridge, N. Mex., turns out soso, there's always another rallying ground down an Interstate. There, for a few dollars a day, the motor-home owner can hook up to a power line, fill water and fuel tanks, flush out the crud and replenish the refrigerator...
...HAVE THE PROPOSITION 13 BLUES? COME TO IOWA, WHERE WE BALANCE OUR BUDGET, CONTROL OUR TAXES AND STILL BELIEVE IN SPENDING THE MONEY NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THE VERY BEST...
Though an earlier, similar experiment by an Iowa utility ended abruptly when worries arose over the burning of a corn fungicide, LMU has not met any environmentalist opposition. The corn "burns cleanly and has no detectable emissions," says Edwin McDivitt, 49, manager of utilities for LMU and the driving force behind the idea. He adds: "It would be nice to say that we did it for environmental reasons, but I got into it to save a buck...
...yard of my family's home in Greenfield, Iowa, this summer is an extraordinary clarifier. Down the line of porches the past echoes. There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft...
...remarkable thing in Greenfield, Iowa, on this Fourth of July is that so many of the residents have their personal stories to support their concerns. Four policemen in town do the job that two used to do. Neither the population nor the incidence of crime has increased more than a fraction. A nearby hamlet was adequately supplied with two special education teachers, but there were funds left over so they hired a third teacher to sop up the surplus. A member of a state review board attended a meeting where he and the others were warned that their appropriation...