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William Maxwell's What Every Boy Should Know is perhaps the most moving and wryly humorous story in the book. Set in a Midwestern small town, it tells of young Edward Gellert's stumbling entry into puberty and the total failures of communication between the very young and the rest of the world...
FREIGHT RATE HIKE sought by U.S. railways will be opposed by representatives of 21 Midwestern, Southeastern states in Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. Opponents claim railroads' requested 15% rate increase will cost shippers $1,250,000,000 a year...
...Eisenhower avalanche was awesome in its force and fury. It crushed Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the entire Northeast, swept across Midwestern farmlands with a setback only in Missouri, shattered Democratic presidential hopes on the Pacific Coast and burst through traditional Democratic barriers in the South-where Ike carried Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and, unbelievably, Louisiana. It tore city after city-from Jersey City to Chicago to Montgomery-from the Democratic grasp. It cut across nearly all racial, religious, ethnic and economic lines. It gave Dwight Eisenhower a victory surging toward the 10 million plurality mark, with about...
...Midwestern Revolt. The much-touted farm revolt barely affected Ike himself. In Minnesota's prosperous Deerfield township, for example, Ike was down by twelve percentage points from 1952-but he stood at a still healthy 64.5%. In Iowa, votes ranging up to 63% in well-to-do farm districts more than compensated for losses in drought-stricken areas. Eisenhower even won some low-income Kentucky farm districts that had gone for Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal...
...leadership of NSA is chosen from the more active members. This year among the six major officers five were from the Midwest. In the past, however, of forty-eight possible positions fifteen were filled by Eastern schools (five of these being Harvard people), nine by Western schools, seventeen by Midwestern schools and seven from Southern schools. With increased participation the Eastern college can assuredly gain the place of prominence it had in the past...