Word: midwest
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Chicago grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
...appointment of Christ-Janer adds to the growing reputation of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Beloit, Carleton, Coe, Cornell, Grinnell, Knox, Lawrence, Monmouth, Ripon and St. Olaf) as a breeding ground for major-university presidents. In 1964, Grinnell's Howard Bowen stepped up to the University of Iowa, while Lawrence has lost two former presidents to other and larger institutions-Nathan Pusey to Harvard and Douglas Knight to Duke...
...Illinois and Mark Hatfield of Oregon, as well as New York's Mayor John Lindsay, are considered more promising for 1972. That leaves Richard Nixon, whose chief support comes from precisely those regions where Romney is weakest because of his 1964 defection-the South and parts of the Midwest...
...Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, etc.), which paralyze Manhattan to very little purpose. Some Italians still get excited when somebody pushes Leif Ericson's claim to be the discoverer of America, and John Gronouski, now U.S. Ambassador to Poland, was jeered by Polish fraternal organizations in the Midwest when they discovered that he could not speak the language. (He took some quick lessons.) There are many lingering ethnic sensibilities on foreign affairs, notably the widespread Jewish sympathy for Israel and hostility toward the Arabs. New York's Mayor John Lindsay discovered this last June when Jewish objections...
Boat owners like the new system, which costs about $4.50 per ft. v. $5 to $6 per ft. for hauling. East Coast and Midwest marina owners see it as a way to add to their storage capacity. Happiest of all are the skippers, who need only take off the tarpaulins to take their undrydocked loves out for a run on a rare mild January...