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...internal politics of the American Legion has a curiously clinical quality: contenders for Legion power can perfect the technique of political bloodletting without having to clutter up their minds with abstruse theory, principle or policy. A Midwestern governor, one of many U.S. public officials who received Legion political training, recently recalled with a shudder: "Legion politics! That's the worst kind. They not only cut your throat the way politicians do, but they stand around and watch you gurgle...
...story described a big dance to which he had taken the really top girl, and as if he stood at the same time outside the ballroom, a little Midwestern boy with his nose to the glass, wondering how much the tickets cost and who paid for the music...
...Neither Midwestern heat nor blustery Kansas winds on the Wichita Country Club course could throw Uruguay's Fay Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...
...research facilities, Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago had one more piece of news. "I have," he told the annual banquet for "C" men, "a petition signed by some 300 students who say they wish to see Chicago re-enter football ... A president of a large Midwestern public university told me the other day that we must be nuts to think of re-entering the game. But nuts or not, we are giving it thoughtful consideration at the present time...
CEMENT SHORTAGE threatens to slow down the building boom in three key U.S. areas. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association reports that the 95 producing U.S. companies cannot meet expanding demand because of severe shortages in New England, some Midwestern states and Texas, where a grey market has started in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth...