Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buzzed the cavernous Veterans Memorial Auditorium in a plane with wing lights that flashed GO, RAMS . . . HAWKETTES . . . TROJANETTES. Inside the arena thundered a cacophony of horns, shrieks and stamping feet, while medical technicians wearing vests decorated with red hearts hovered in the wings, alert for coronary victims. The 58th Iowa State High School Basketball Championship for Girls was under way, and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury was there to observe the fevered five-day rite. His report...
Girls' basketball is an old and proud tradition in Iowa. Youngsters from such towns as Elkader, Creston and Ida Grove have been sinking baskets on makeshift barnyard courts since 1898. The first Iowa girls' championship, in 1919, was contested two decades before the National Collegiate Athletic Association organized its championship tournament for the fellas. Today all but six of the state's 503 high schools field girls' basketball teams...
...them operate under the jurisdiction of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, which has an annual budget of nearly $1 million. The 16 teams that make it to the Des Moines finals must fight their way through a grueling, complex schedule, playing as many as seven play-off games. It is a journey that in some Iowa families has been made by two and three generations of players. Says Guard Chris Jenison, 18, of the Belmond Broncoettes: "I've lived all my life just to get here...
...tearful hugs. As proud parents pumped his hands, Rams Coach Bob Merkle summed it up: "A dream come true." With that, the new champions and the runners-up moved to a fried-chicken victory dinner. But for the Rams, the real celebration came later that night. The champions of Iowa girls' basketball, holders of the state's most prestigious athletic prize, retired to a school gym across town for a slumber party...
...spends most of his time talking to farm groups for up to $2,000 a speech: "I've discovered that what I'd been giving away, I could make money on. Gosh, I've got seven more talks lined up now, in Illinois, Ohio and Iowa." Former Treasury Secretary William Simon, who has political ambitions, is a client of the same Los Angeles public relations firm that handles Ronald Reagan. Soon he will be airing his views on politics in radio commentaries, speeches and a syndicated newspaper column titled "Simon Says...