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...Midwestern businessmen were exhilarated by the storm. Wisconsin's eight snowblower manufacturers worked overtime trying to keep pace with demand. Curtis Barren, a Chicago AMC dealer, sold 37 four-wheel-drive Jeeps in five days (vs. a typical three or four). And with so many offices and factories idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press...
Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was making extensive plans to entertain Teng when he makes his state visit to the U.S. later this month. The proposed program includes a trip to Texas, where Teng can discuss buying oil equipment, a journey to a big Midwestern farm and an extravaganza at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, naturally, General...
...Psychiatrist Don M. LaGrone. Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, LaGrone says that alcoholism is high in military families, child abuse is five times the national average, and Army brats are brought in for psychiatric treatment in unusually high numbers. During his two-year stint at an unidentified Midwestern military base, LaGrone reported, 12% of all children and adolescents on the base came to his clinic for psychiatric help. Of these, 4% were diagnosed as psychotic...
...large numbers, and Short was trounced in the Senate vote by Republican David Durenberger, 44, a Minneapolis lawyer. Durenberger's margin was some 400,000 votes. Anderson was defeated by Rudy Boschwitz, 48, a lanky Jewish émigré from Nazi Germany and millionaire founder of a Midwestern chain of stores selling home-construction and remodeling materials...