Word: midwesternisms
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...Talk. When the debate was over, each man departed with hardly a word to the other. For the two weeks remaining in the campaign, each had set a grueling windup program for himself. Both were off on their final drives in the key Midwestern states. Each had to deal in his own way with the wind-whipped campaign foliage-the religion issue, the direction of U.S. economy and foreign policy-that seemed to hover stubbornly, like leaves that are swept from draft to draft and never seem to come to rest...
This impressive new novel begins as a Midwestern idyl set on a leafy, residential street in Rainbow Center, Ohio. A widow er of 78. Realtor Boyd Mason comes home to the wide-lawned Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
...mowed, 15-acre wheatfield 1½ miles north of Flora, Ill. stood 1,374 glistening new white Fords, Falcons and Thunderbirds, 115 new trucks and one bright red-and-white fire engine. At exactly 10:23 one morning last week Flora residents sprinted across the stubble in a Midwestern version of the Le Mans start, hopped into the new cars, and amid a swirl of dust drove them to their homes...
...make New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller his running mate, aware of his crowd-pleasing talents, his appeal to independents, and the need for his help to swing New York's 45 electoral votes. Rockefeller refused to join the ticket, but agreed to support Nixon. The Midwestern Republicans, still resentful of Lodge's role in derailing Ohio's Taft in 1952, wanted Nixon to pick Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, G.O.P. National Chairman, for his Vice President. Everybody agreed he would add to Republican appeal in the South. But after Kennedy's surprise...
Heady Prediction. Battered on Capitol Hill, Kennedy had other worries besides. Midwestern polls suggested that the force of the farm revolt against the G.O.P. has been overestimated. Anti-Catholic prejudice was looming bigger in the South and Midwest than Kennedy had expected. In New York, a nonprofit organization called the Fair Campaign Practices Com. mittee gloomily reported that it saw "a substantial danger that the campaign in 1960 will be dirtier on the religious issue than it was in 1928." With religion hurting Kennedy in Dixie, Republicans were headily predicting that Nixon would carry Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and even...