Word: mid-western
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...longer so interesting. Perhaps it is still interesting to upwardly mobile mid-Western clubbies who haven't gotten the work that Atlanta or Phoenix is a better place to get rich than New York nowadays; it is still interesting to introspective neurotics who can't quite figure out all the New Yorkers he sees running around Harvard, and it is, of course, still interesting to the downwardly socially mobile offspring of those same New Yorkers...
...making an appeal for the Texas farm vote, McGovern will have to unite a host of desparate elements under his campaign banner. Texans in the panhandle region show mid-western Republican influences while East Texas is heavy Wallace country; Southwest Texas is a land of rugged individualists who tend to vote very conservatively. Much of the vote in these areas will probably go to Nixon. South Texas, however, has a large Mexican-American population. Although LaRaza Unida Party has not endorsed McGovern, the South Dakotan can still count on carrying the Rio Grande Valley counties: LaRaza does not yet control...
Eighty-seven teams belong to the IC4A, but not all are sending competitors. Schools from throughout New England. New York and Pennsylvania will be represented today, as well as some southern and mid-western schools like Maryland and Notre Dame...
...looking toward the future for our lower weight positions," said Fehrs. "Several top wrestlers who could wrestle 118 or 126 are very interested in coming here next year." One is a two-time Oklahoma State champion, who is favored to win a third championship this year. Also several mid-Western standouts are excellent Harvard prospects...
...secure independence in any peace discussions, Ojukwu is relying on a strategy designed to embarrass Gowon. With sizable oilfields in the Port Harcourt area and in the mid-western region, Nigeria ranks as the world's 13th oil nation in terms of annual output (anticipated 1969 production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have...