Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance, he fares badly in the surveys. His best big-state performance is in California, where the last Mervin Field poll shows him ahead of Carter 23% to 20% (Reagan has 51%). The independent also has a sizable following in New York and some big Northeastern and Midwestern states, but is woefully weak in the South and the Rocky Mountain West...
...that they will launch an afternoon edition if Tonight takes off, they do admit to plans for various unspecified "innovations" in the paper this fall and winter. For the moment the Times seems preoccupied with other matters. The paper last week began printing in Chicago for distribution in nine Midwestern states, with home delivery in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, as well as the Windy City. Mindful of the drubbing they took in the early '60s, when an attempt to publish in California collapsed for lack of ads and readers, Times executives are insisting that their Midwest venture is just...
...nice to see men finally beginning to take care of their hair," Mary Crosby, chief of the eight-man styling team, said as she worked on one midwestern reporter. "I hate messy hair, I just hate it," Crosby added, pointing to the pink-caped men hunkered down in front of lighted mirrors as proof of their emancipation from old-fashioned prejudices against $30 haircuts...
Thus, while Southern farmers are downcast, many of their Midwestern counterparts are happy. The reason: their heavy stocks of wheat or corn in storage are now worth more. Said Maurice Van Nostrand, an official of the giant A.G.R.I. Industries, a cooperative of grain elevator operators: "In the last two weeks, we have been buying three times as much as we did in May. I can't imagine the market being more powerful, even if the Russians were still...
...present revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is a gutsplitter. An accident immures Whiteside (Ellis Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...