Word: midwesterner
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...month commuting two hours each way. Now I'm 14 minutes door to door, and I live on a farm." Adds Mayor Porter, who in a neat reverse moved to Wichita from Southern California: "It's the kind of community that can be stimulating and still be Midwestern enough to be concerned about things like honesty and being nice to old folks...
...another tight midwestern race, the lead seesawed between John J. Gilligan, the Democratic governor of Ohio, and former Republican Governor James A. Rhodes...
...campaign has hardly stirred the cornstalks, but 1974 still may be a turning point for Midwestern politics. Because of population shifts and spreading industrialization, there has been a Democratic tide here since the mid-1960s. Now Watergate and the faltering economy have given Midwestern Democrats expectations of winning upwards of 15 House seats and five in the Senate, as well as significant inroads in state elections. The gains may signal the Midwest's switch from being a Republican stronghold to a two-party region, if not a happy hunting ground for Democrats...
Late this summer I visited the Truman, Eisenhower, and Hoover libraries. These midwestern facilities differ in setting and mood and none is located in a congested urban area. But they all suggest what a presidential library may mean for Cambridge...
...evidence tends to support him. The main issue is double-digit inflation. Says one Midwestern G.O.P. leader: "There is no one alive who knows the answer to our economic problems, but the blame falls on Republican shoulders because...