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Viet Nam may yet emerge as a pivotal issue in November's elections-but not if most leading candidates can help it. "We're running for seats in Congress," protests a Midwestern Republican, "not for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...history of what has been going in Romney's mind. Anyone who wants to prove that he is an unvarnished Chicago Tribune sort of Republican can go back to his AMA speeches and find the usual derisive references to Walter Reuther, creeping socialism, etc. But people's minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight-on-a-white-horse-in-shining-armor figure (Big George himself...
...allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they can't look sloppy, no matter how hard they...
...postwar shift in U.S. grocery shopping from small corner stores to giant supermarkets, no chain grew more aggressively than Chicago-based National Tea Co. From its position as a middle-sized Midwestern chain in the 1940s, National spread south as far as New Orleans and west to Denver, absorbed 22 smaller chains with 485 stores in 16 states. The acquisitions helped double sales, made National stores the fifth largest U.S. grocery chain, with $1.2 billion sales last year from 941 stores. Last week, after a marathon investigation, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 that National, between...
What is hard to figure about Young is just what in his blood count motivated him to take a stand so repugnant to his Senate colleague and--most likely--to his constituents as well. There is something of the traditional midwestern isolationist in him, but he is clearly more than that. His progressivism is evidenced by his votes on domestic questions, and, while hardly a leftist, Young has a leftist's distrust for the military...