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...Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...
...pocket, Kister has a stack of computer-generated cards bearing the names and addresses of all the Democrats and Independents in his assigned sector. On these cards he records a resident's likeliness to vote, preferred candidate and most strongly felt campaign issue. He visits one hundred houses a day; someone is home at maybe thirty. Of these, half are undecided and of those he might bring four or five into the Harkin camp. One day's work...
...everyone, however, is enthusiastic about the electronic Academic American. Librarian Rosalie Pagano at Palisades Park High is worried that "students are relying too much on it. I wish they would transfer their interest to books." Observes Kenneth Kister, editor of the Encyclopedia Buying Guide: "Academic American was created under extreme deadline pressure. It's good, but not as well written as World Book or as comprehensive as the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...sequel to "Under Cover" of the war years, takes the reader on an unforgettable tour behind the seenes of an American political underworld where hate is the would-be vote-getter. The picture he paints will endure; the uninitiated will have seen what seaminess can be. It is Frederick Kister, or Gerald L. K. Smith, or William Dudley Pelley harangning a crowd of 52-20's in a shabby meeting house on the edge of a large Eastern city. It is a rally of "We, the Mothers," anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-"furriner" feeling whipped to a fever pitch...
Christian Veterans of America. Headed by Frederick Kister, onetime America Firster and friend of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams. Its National Chaplain: Arthur W. Terminiello, Roman Catholic priest suspended by his bishop for "detrimental" activities, sometimes known as the "Father Coughlin of the South...