Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard an interesting story from Iowa, a follow-up to our Jan. 31 cover on the Big Freeze. The Saturday night after that issue came out, Gordon Neal, at home on his Mount Vernon farm, got an unexpected phone call. The caller: President Jimmy Carter, who had been reading TIME and had seen our reference to the Neals' frozen water pipe. The two chatted about the fuel crisis, Neal's 160-acre farm and the weather. It turned out that Neal's pipe had burst and been repaired. He had, in fact, been in the bathtub when...
...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...Hodge, Associate Professor of English, Morningside College Sioux City, Iowa...
...cold soak" also plagued the Midwest's farmers. Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...running a Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...