Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory-an optimism that was missing during the primaries. Says he: "The issues are cutting with us. The Ford Administration isn't going anywhere. It's dead." The party's new unity was tonic as well. As Mondale noted during a flight from New Mexico to Iowa, "The hostility, bitterness, rudeness, vulgarity-you don't see that this year...
...toss-up too. So is Michigan, Ford's home state, where local pride may not be enough to overcome resentment over the recession. Bob Dole's Kansas seems as secure for Ford as Fritz Mondale's Minnesota seems safe for Carter. Ford also should carry Nebraska, but Iowa and the Dakotas are anybody's race. The President might score an upset in usually liberal Wisconsin; Milwaukee is heavily populated by ethnic minorities, and the countryside is generally conservative...
...most visible and vocal foe-and Carter has been one of the bishops' targets. Acting on the advice of Senator Walter Mondale, Carter sought the meeting with the bishops in an effort to effect a ceasefire. Ever since his victory last January in the Iowa caucuses, he has drawn criticism from right-to-life groups for his refusal to support a constitutional amendment on abortion. These attacks intensified after the Democratic Party adopted a campaign platform that openly rejected amendment attempts to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision, which struck down state laws that prohibited abortion during the first...
...farmers like the idea that Carter is a farmer who knows their problems. During a recent Carter swing through Iowa, a farmer whispered to a friend, "It's just like having a family member come home, his being here." Carter told a farm audience, "I understand you, and you can understand...
...Canterbury Tales appears only in the author's purloined formula: toss some interesting strangers together and stir. The plot is launched by English Professor Rigby Short, whose opera libretto, $4000, is about to be performed at a large Midwestern university. The locale resembles the University of Iowa, where Bourjaily has been associated with the writers' workshop for the past 16 years. (In 1969 an opera for which he wrote the libretto, $4000, was staged there.) The novel's cast is composed of a gaggle of graduate students, some local singers and several professionals from the outside...