Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people swarming into Kansas City, Mo., next week for the G.O.P. Convention will not see the best of the town. The new 17,000-seat, $23.2 million Kemper Arena, where the Republicans will gather, is set like a snow-white spaceship in the bottoms along the Missouri, just next to the decaying old stockyards. Delegates heading for the hall will encounter such scenery as the Columbia Burlap Co. and the Sweet Lassy Feed Co. If the Republicans want to browse near by during a convention break, they will have to settle for Farm World, a shop specializing in serums, wormers...
...Director Frank Vaydik. "they aren't going to tear up anything in that park. I don't care who I have to call in." The entire 1,200-man Kansas City police department has been given crowd-control training and put on full alert; more than 325 Missouri state police and deputy sheriffs from surrounding counties have been mustered to help. Since the Kansas state line runs next to the Kemper Arena, squads of cops from Kansas City, Kans., will patrol there...
...blue and white, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron lifted off the choppy runway in Chillicothe, Mo., one evening last week, its occupants had good cause for jubilation. Millionaire Congressman Jerry Litton had just scored a dramatic upset in Missouri's Democratic senatorial primary. Now, accompanied by family and friends, he was headed for a victory party with 1,500 campaign workers in Kansas City's Hilton Plaza...
...been one of the freest-spending campaigns in Missouri's history. Eventually, returns showed that Litton had won 45% of the vote. Former Governor Warren Hearnes, 53, trailed with 27%. In third place was Congressman James W. Symington, 48, the early favorite to take the nomination and thus earn the chance to succeed his father, retiring Senator Stuart Symington, 75, who has held the seat since...
Folksy Appeal. Litton parlayed hard work and a folksy appeal to victory. Up from impoverished beginnings, he helped build a successful Charolais cattle-breeding operation that he sold in 1974 for $3.8 million. The money went into a blind trust. First elected to Congress from rural western Missouri in 1972, he was re-elected in a landslide and decided to go after a Senate seat this year. When the contest began, Litton was 25 points behind the favored Symington in opinion polls...