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...programs sounded pretty much like a philosophy of total altruism and good citizenship--a kind of tutoring service for policymakers and a chance for freshmen midwestern senators and young eastern seaboard congressmen to dig into off-shore drilling and farm price support case studies for a small admission...
...Last spring the Saudi Arabian government signed a $72,400 contract with a consortium of five Midwestern universities calling for U.S. professors to act as consultants to the new University of Riyadh. The consortium -made up of Indiana University, Michigan State University and the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin-then submitted a list of 30 faculty members as candidates for the trip to Riyadh. The Saudis selected ten; among those eliminated were the only Jews nominated, two professors at Wisconsin...
...subject of encroaching bureaucratic control used to make people's eyes glaze over," says Cannon. "I don't think so any longer." Cannon wandered through some Midwestern cities with his ears open. He was astonished at how many people vented their anger and concern about federal intervention. A bank in St. Louis lost thousands of dollars in business just because a Government agent came around to check on whether or not the place was hiring enough women. The simple presence of the Government gumshoe made a number of customers wonder if something else was wrong with the bank...
...could rise as much as 15% because utilities would either buy more high-priced oil to substitute for lost coal output or pay more for coal itself. Some electric companies, in fact, may not even have a choice. Last week the Government announced hearings on whether to order nine Midwestern utilities to use coal as fuel instead of oil or natural gas. Before the Government's authority to require such conversions ends June 30, according to Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb, another 55 power plants may be forced to make the same switch...
Your article states that many Midwestern communities "have had to draw on events of a century after the Revolution," citing as an example the George Rogers Clark Exhibit that opens next February at the Indiana State Museum...