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...Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the U.S. once glowed with industrial and agricultural riches. In many places today, however, the two regions have the shabby look of an unsuccessful middle age. One reason: the Federal Government, through its spending and tax policies, has been persistently draining wealth from the areas and transferring it to the once neglected but now prospering South and Southwest...
...this century. As the G.O.P. assembled in Kansas City, a sitting President, albeit appointed as a result of Watergate, was facing revolt from the faithful in his own party. The battle was ideologically murky, for Gerald Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan are both basically conservatives. In the damp Midwestern summer heat, Ford pleaded for support with a steady stream of delegates. He finally won this brawl on the precipice by a painfully close 1,187 to 1,070 votes. But even after that outcome was clear, nobody was certain how the conservative fundamentalists would take their hero's defeat...
...much in common-Midwestern origins, conservative instincts, self-made careers-and yet seemed so far apart. Now that they were down to the climactic moment, what were the moods and attitudes of the Republican contenders? To find out, TIME asked its correspondents who have followed them most closely in the campaign. Strobe Talbott reported on Gerald Ford and Dean Fischer on Ronald Reagan (see box next page...
...Midwestern Physicians. As participant sports became more and more popular in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, Abercrombie opened branches in San Francisco, Troy, Mich., and Colorado Springs, and it began dealing more in fashion. Other high-priced stores-notably Tiffany-successfully made the difficult transition to a broader market by combining friendliness with lower-priced items, but A. & F. did not move far or fast enough. As recently as the mid-1960s, complains a New York advertising man, A. & F. was run "like a stuffy club"-still catering to wealthy Midwestern physicians who take four weeks...
Kansas City (pop. 513,000) is spread out over 316 square miles. That spaciousness is one of its charms, but distances make it difficult for visitors without cars to inspect the place. Actually, like many Midwestern cities-except Chicago-Kansas City is two cities: downtown and elsewhere. The city is now laboring to restore the dreary 140sq. block downtown area, which is populated only during office hours and abandoned...