Word: lowans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief question that he must decide soon is whether to try electing one of his supporters as Republican National Chairman and risk a damaging intraparty bloodbath or to settle for someone acceptable to other factions. The post is now held by lowan Mary Louise Smith, who was selected by Gerald Ford after he became President in 1974. But she is expected to follow tradition and resign voluntarily, probably at next month's executive committee meeting. Her successor would then be named at the full Republican National Committee meeting scheduled for January...
...legionnaires were cordial but not feverish in their applause, and so it went through most of Ford's tour. As one lowan put it: "He's like an inch and a half of rain in a dry year. Nice, appreciated, but not enough." But Ford likes this kind of campaigning-so much so that he plans to be out of Washington almost every weekend all fall. There will be fund raisers from Newport, R.I., to Seattle, Wash., a Baptist convention in St. Louis and, of course, the University of Michigan's football game against Michigan State...
...does not feel the same about Herbert Hoover, her fellow lowan. "They are trying to put Hoover on a pedestal. He's not on my pedestal," she says. Hoover is still blamed for failing to help the farm economy. The Wood-sides held on-even through 1934 when the weather brutalized the prairies. Ross got no hay, no corn, sold his few cattle to the Government. There was almost nothing-but there was a new President...
Turner, a sandy-haired lowan, started out in 1956 as a short-order cook, frying burgers at Ray Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant outside Chicago. Kroc then tapped him to keep an eye on new restaurants; he rose so rapidly that he never had time to claim the McDonald's franchise Kroc had promised him. As president since 1968, Turner has been in charge of day-to-day operations. Now he will take over some of Kroc's policy-planning role...
...LONG BINH JAIL, where 739 overcrowded prisoners rioted in 1968, the inmate population has been cut to between 400 and 450. "LBJ" has fewer problems now under a new commander, Lieut. Colonel Paul Grossheim, a big, stone-faced lowan with a master's degree in criminology and penology. Says David Addlestone, a civilian defense lawyer for G.I.s in Viet Nam: "I came here really hot to dust the place over and just haven't found that many serious complaints...