Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DENVER, COLO., Elitch Theater. Robert Cummings plays a Midwest adman who prides himself on being a swinger but finds that life styles are mostly a matter of Generation when he pays a visit to his daughter's Greenwich Village loft...
...lost about 50 delegate votes in the past few weeks. They still believe, however, that he will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
...story circulating in the Midwest these days tells how a pollster approached two men and asked one of them whether he intended to vote for Humphrey or Nixon for President. Without a word, the man hauled off and slugged the pollster. "What's the matter with you?" his friend remonstrated. "You know you're going to vote for one of those guys." Replied the first man: "I know, but I don't like to be reminded...
...sanitation man and a member of the state employment service-for a whole spectrum of social problems, from health to jobs. Police are given partial credit for keeping St. Louis relatively quiet. Other problems remain unsolved. St. Louis has a rising crime rate and is a major Midwest base for organized crime...
...largest, with assets of $3.9 billion, is forming a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary for its new venture. It has already won permission to buy a seat on the Boston Stock Exchange, where it will be the first foreign member. The bank also has applied for a seat on the Midwest Stock Exchange in Chicago and for associate membership in the Philadelphia- Baltimore-Washington Exchange. A ban on foreign members will prevent it from joining the New York Stock Exchange...