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...doubtless better than those of the ancients who examined chicken entrails. In Washington, D.C., retired Barber Harry Rich announced that customers of the nation's barbershops favored Stevenson over Eisenhower 58,350 to 56,213. Kansas City, Mo.'s Staley Milling Co. found that 51.6% of its Midwestern customers preferred to buy their chicken feed in sacks bearing the G.O.P. elephant. Operating on a somewhat more scientific basis, Gallup pollsters found that the Democratic Party has gained ground during October...
...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
...similar deals, Moore has built Continental to its present size in only nine years. After graduating from high school in Jackson, Tenn., he took a job as ticket agent for a midwestern bus line, soon worked his way up to traffic manager. In 1943, after a stint with another bus line, Moore organized Lone Star Coaches, and with a borrowed $2,500,000 bought out Bowen Motor Coaches of Fort Worth, second largest independent in the South. With Lone Star serving most of the Army camps in Texas, business boomed during the war; Moore expanded into Colorado and New Mexico...
...total vote of nearly 3,000,000. Contrary to the Democratic trend in presidential voting, Ohio has two G.O.P. Senators and 16 of its 23 Congressmen are Republican. Although it lies entirely in the eastern time zone of the U.S., Ohio's character is primarily Midwestern and its political temper is more conservative than that of most industrial states. The most effective political instrument in the state is the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican organization, headed by Congressman-at-Large George Bender, Bob Taft's white-gloved bell ringer at the Chicago convention. Star performer of this outfit...
Next morning he was up for an 8:45 breakfast date. At 10 o'clock, he met some 400 Republicans-some friendly, some hostile-from seven Midwestern states for a prolonged question & answer session. Then he flew back to Denver long enough to help break camp. His personal campaign adviser, New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams, set out for Washington to open Ike's main headquarters near the Republican National Committee. Part of the staff took off for Manhattan with Ike for the Legion speech, and conferences with Eastern G.O.P. leaders...