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...issue of bean quantity, Bennis said Bok had only mentioned a "small portion" in his October 13 reply to Bennis's challenge. "But smallness in Harvard terms may be large in Midwestern terms," he said...
Wolff then reported to Lakeland in February again, only this time he played a season for the Clinton, Iowa Tiger farm club in the Class "A" Midwestern League...
...give New York breathing space. The city is to blame for the crisis, they claim. The administration consistently refuses to recognize New York's desperate attempts to overhaul and reorganize its budget, because such a recognition might imply that the city deserves help. Ford told a meeting of midwestern small city mayors two weeks ago, "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your cities as badly as New York City has been run." As Ford portrays it, there is no way to help an overgrown government that has been wasting money on social services. He has been claiming...
Since natural gas accounts for about a third of all the energy consumed in the U.S., the results would be severe. Hundreds of thousands of workers could be thrown out of their jobs as factories close for want of fuel, mainly in the Northeastern, Midwestern and Southern states (see box). Generally, gas companies unable to meet demand cut off service first to industry; this winter there is a slim possibility that some of the 55% of American homes heated by natural gas will go cold too. Some new homes may not even be able to hook up-a fact that...
...days of its decline, have come to associate with the word vaudeville. We tend to forget, too, that such modern idols as the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny all started like that, painfully and miserably, travelling on second-class night coach, starving and playing to jeering audiences in remote Midwestern ghosttowns. Vaudeville was the brutally hard world in which many older screen comedy celebrities cut their teeth...