Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving to Rochester. Flying down Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills...
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...klieg lights with the mayors of Woonsocket and Saugus, chairmen of his Rhode Island campaign: "Last week, I predicted for the first time that on March 9 I'll beat George Wallace in Florida. Tonight I'm predicting that there will be only two of us left at Madison Square Garden. The convention won't be deadlocked. Your next president will be the Democratic nominee--a nuclear physicist who grows peanuts in Georgia...
...self-styled presidential impersonator does impressions of Van Buren, Madison and Polk without ever changing his voice. On a program featuring hard-luck stories, a contestant with a pain fully stooped back is awarded a free trip to the top of the Statue of Liberty...