Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). In a visit to the Midwest, Discovery goes to an Illinois "State Fair," a tradition in which farm families mix business with pleasure. With stops at the vegetable exhibit, horse race and stock judging...
...only major steel producer based in Chicago, Inland has long capitalized on the lucrative Midwest steel market. With all its production concentrated at its huge Indiana Harbor complex in nearby East Chicago, the company sells 70% of its output within a 200-mile radius. In recent years, however, other major steelmakers have rapidly expanded their Chicago-area operations-and Inland has lately been feeling the pinch...
...washed up. "They were wrong," he said. "Goldwater missed his timing by four years. Why do you imagine Reagan has come on as fast as he has?" His analysis could be correct. But it may also turn out that voters in the suburbs and big cities of the East, Midwest and even parts of the South are less receptive to Reagan's appeal than was California's electorate...
...daydreaming: here is Rocky, launching his campaign from the steps of a Harlem tenement and blazing a triumphant trail through the nation's big cities; there is Reagan, wowing the farmers at the plowing contest in Fargo, N. Dak., and, as he stumps through the cornfields of the Midwest and the canebrakes of the South, leaving in his wake legions of charmed citizens, particularly women, who will have 62 million votes next year-4,000,000 more than U.S. men. Rockefeller, in particular, could capture new bases of support for the party among urban Negroes, workers and intellectuals...
Reagan at the top of the ticket becomes more of a possibility when it is realized that the South and West will have more votes than the Midwest and the Northeast at Miami Beach (682 to 634). But he would have drawbacks. Said a former Goldwater stalwart in New Hampshire: "Reagan might be nice, but he will have a big liability from the nut faction-they'll all attach themselves to him and hurt his image. Unless we win over the independent, we'll be in trouble again...