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...craggy-faced passenger was obviously a farmer returning from the city, impatient to see how many inches the corn had grown in his absence, begrudging every precious second of daylight lost in transit. Finally, 172 miles and 155 minutes out of Chicago, the train glided to a halt at Mattoon, III., and the fretful passenger hopped...
...railroad waiter's daughter from Mattoon, III., she had a choice of five college scholarships and won a summa cum laude diploma from Howard University in Washington. She is an associate professor at Howard, has been admitted to Supreme Court practice, is active in civil rights organizations and Democratic politics, and last August delivered one of Johnson's seconding speeches in Atlantic City...
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...York, Pa. and Harrisburg, Huntingdon and Pittsburgh; in Marietta, Ohio and Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Toledo; in Jackson, Mich., and Battle Creek; in Danville, Ill., Mattoon and Carbondale-in the more than 40 hamlets and cities in the path of his one-week siege, Nixon struck out at Kennedy with ever sharper accusations of naivete and fear-spreading ("It's time to hot things up a bit, don't you think?" he asked one audience). Nearly everywhere churning, cheering crowds smashed to the depots to roar their encouragement as he countered the Kennedy campaign theme ("All of this...
...GLEASON MATTOON Assistant Editor Horticulture Magazine Boston