Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ames, Iowa...
GUARDS. Ken Jones, Arkansas State, 6 ft. 5 in., 255 lbs.; and Joe Devlin, Iowa, 6 ft. 5 in., 277 lbs. Jones is the kind of guard the late Vince Lombardi would have admired: with 4.8 speed in the 40-yd. dash, he pulls out swiftly ahead of his running backs. Devlin is another for midable blocker, quick off the ball and adept at keeping pass rushers away from his quarterback...
...They don't even know why they're here," growled Hunter, an agriculture major at Hampshire College who wants to return to an Iowa farm someday, pointing to the couple. "They told me they have no idea what Carter would mean to New England...
...front-page stories Sullivan was referring to described Carter's surprising strength at two state gatherings of Democratic Party activists. In Iowa, where the first convention delegates will be selected January 19, Carter received more than double the votes given any other candidate. In Florida's "Bicentennial Presidential Democratic convention" in mid-November, Carter garnered 697 votes, or more than two-thirds of all ballots cast in an informal tally. Wallace, the favorite in Florida, received only 57. "How important those votes were is open to debate," the chief political reporter for a national radio network told me sagely...
Other wives listed as mavericks by MacPherson maintain separate identities by refusing to follow their men to Washington. Ruth Harkin, wife of an Iowa Democratic Congressman, who announced that Washington wives are just "pawns" for publicity purposes, stayed home in Iowa, where she is Story County prosecuting attorney. Senator Jacob Javits lives in Washington; his wife, Marion, lives in New York and leads the life of a social butterfly...