Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this century. As the G.O.P. assembled in Kansas City, a sitting President, albeit appointed as a result of Watergate, was facing revolt from the faithful in his own party. The battle was ideologically murky, for Gerald Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan are both basically conservatives. In the damp Midwestern summer heat, Ford pleaded for support with a steady stream of delegates. He finally won this brawl on the precipice by a painfully close 1,187 to 1,070 votes. But even after that outcome was clear, nobody was certain how the conservative fundamentalists would take their hero's defeat...
...much in common-Midwestern origins, conservative instincts, self-made careers-and yet seemed so far apart. Now that they were down to the climactic moment, what were the moods and attitudes of the Republican contenders? To find out, TIME asked its correspondents who have followed them most closely in the campaign. Strobe Talbott reported on Gerald Ford and Dean Fischer on Ronald Reagan (see box next page...
...Midwestern Physicians. As participant sports became more and more popular in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, Abercrombie opened branches in San Francisco, Troy, Mich., and Colorado Springs, and it began dealing more in fashion. Other high-priced stores-notably Tiffany-successfully made the difficult transition to a broader market by combining friendliness with lower-priced items, but A. & F. did not move far or fast enough. As recently as the mid-1960s, complains a New York advertising man, A. & F. was run "like a stuffy club"-still catering to wealthy Midwestern physicians who take four weeks...
Kansas City (pop. 513,000) is spread out over 316 square miles. That spaciousness is one of its charms, but distances make it difficult for visitors without cars to inspect the place. Actually, like many Midwestern cities-except Chicago-Kansas City is two cities: downtown and elsewhere. The city is now laboring to restore the dreary 140sq. block downtown area, which is populated only during office hours and abandoned...
...screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins is full of prime ideas and opportunities, like a sequence in which the newly formed All-Stars learn how to parade into a small Midwestern town. First they Tom it up, as if auditioning for a minstrel show, then the team starts strutting with a fine, brassy pride, sweeping the local citizenry along. Handled right, that scene could have had the jazzy fervor of a jam session at high noon. Director John Badham, however, seems mostly concerned with producing the kind of fancy optical effects that used to punctuate Busby Berkeley routines...