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...Bayh entered the race in October, his strategists believed that four states would be crucial for him: New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts and New York. But of those four, they saw Massachusetts as the least important. Iowa was the first state to hold delegate caucuses, and it was near his midwestern home base. New Hampshire, with the first primary, was a small state where his effectiveness as a one-on-one personal campaigner would be the most helpful. He was due to peak in New York, where his supporters felt he would finally have enough time to build a solid organization...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Bye, Bye Bayh | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...course, Bowie was always more than merely jarring. To lump him with Alice Cooper, as many do, is a mistake. Despite Cooper's first name and penchant for mascara, his songs were as straight as the midwestern plains from which he came. Cooper's charm, nurtured by Zappa's aesthetic of ugliness, lies elsewhere, perhaps in the psychic territory of a sixth grader...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: David Bowie and Falling Glitter | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...change what people say, but I leave on a speaking tour the 17th of February-giving 14 speeches to alumni in the midwestern area. The fact is, if I had been fired, I wouldn't be allowed to talk to the alumni. Derek wouldn't do that...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Hall Is Likely to Leave After Spring Term Ends | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Until last week the President's campaign staff had counted on strong Midwestern support for Ford even if he loses in the early primaries in New Hampshire, Florida and North Carolina. Now that strategy has been put in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Iowa: The Winnowing Begins | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Founded in the 1820s by a New Yorker named Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now centered in Utah where Smith's followers moved after being chased out of Midwestern towns they had tried to settle in. A fundamentalist religion, it places heavy emphasis on the Bible, but also gives equal power to the Book of Mormon, which church doctrine says is Smith's translation of golden tablets he found under the guidance of a holy messenger. The book tells the story of ancient inhabitants of America descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

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