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...requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman. As the cold war closed in, Communists were once again looked on as the seducers of godless foreign power. "We ought to drop one of these automatic bombs on the Communists," said one Midwestern farmer during the early '50s. The prescription for homegrown Reds was McCarthyism, which threatened democracy more than the encapsulated cells of the American Communist Party. In the end, the beleaguered party withered away, stunned by Khrushchev's anti-Stalinism and sadly watching the proletariat leap over the threshold...
That is a shame, since Wilder and Kane handle their scenes together delicately. As the Midwestern couple encountering Hollywood for the first time, they display the proper amount of naivete and wonder. Kane is convincingly sweet and supportive and when he declares his true love for her at the end of the film, Wilder does his best acting...
Belching diesel exhaust, 6,500 tractors lumbered along a Georgia interstate last weekend, bound for Atlanta. Meanwhile, eight "tractorcades" rumbled into Topeka, Kans., and similar demonstrations occurred in a dozen more Midwestern state capitals. In Washington, D.C., 600 tractors and other farm vehicles gathered near the Washington Monument. Across the country, farmers were rallying to show that they were ready to strike in order to force prices higher. Their motto: "No more producing, no more selling and no more buying...
Much of Velva still clings to Sevareid -his wheatfield-flat monotone, his Scandinavian ponderousness, his Midwestern faith that folks can get along if they listen to each other, and especially his chapbook belief in America's innate strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...
...MIDWESTERN GIANT seeks experienced administrator to run nation's third largest university, with some 48,000 students, 3,405 faculty and $264 million budget. Offerings run from strong agricultural department to innovative performing arts programs. Current President Clifton Wharton, first black to head large, mostly white U.S. university, leaving at year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable...