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Catholicism is no longer a national political liability (see box)-many Southern and Midwestern Democratic politicians gulp hard when his name is mentioned. Geography weakens his position as a possible running mate for New York's Harriman. but he stands high on the Stevenson list...
...time, typhoid is a "dead" disease. Nobody is in much danger of catching it, and doctors rarely look for it. But occasionally the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhosa), as if to keep its charter in the society of menaces, strikes back. This year a baffling outbreak has spread across three Midwestern states. It hit Minnesota most severely in January, Iowa in April. Wisconsin has had a gradual dose of it since the first of the year. To date there have been 121 cases (one death, in Iowa). The victims were from both urban and rural areas, ranged in age from...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they were by a kind of rage because life was not more beautiful. Their kind of literary rebellion is as dated today as the harsh, shallow life they raged against. That is what makes The Narrow Covering, a first novel by Kansas-born Julia Siebel, as curious and archaic as grandpa...
Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...
...chun, assistant professor of chemical engineering at a Midwestern state university, went to Red China last month; the U.S. did not stop him, because all Chinese refugees are free to leave. Another Chinese student recently sent his wife to London, joined her there and traveled home by way of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, scores of other Chinese are racked by doubt...