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More than anything else, it is Carter's personality and style that cause businessmen to warm to him as they rarely do to a Democrat. "Nobody knows what a President is going to do," says John Bunting, chairman of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Bank and an early Carter...
Tapped Phone. Two weeks later, Peg became the La Porte pariah when she told the American Legion there would be no military rites at the funeral. Although her husband shared her bitterness, he was too busy to share in all of her protest activities. She traveled to Washington to participate...
The road from Loyal Park to White Sox stadium had first taken Varney to such tourist traps as Ashville, N.C., Tucson, Ariz., and Des Moines, Iowa. After having received his masters degree in minor league baseball, Varney earned a spot with the big boys.
Change came to Mason City, Iowa, in the mid-'60s. The state approved liquor by the drink in 1963, and the first bars gradually appeared in town. Then came go-go dancers, and by 1965 they were topless. "Things that started in Des Moines pretty soon channeled down to...
In 1970 Richard Davis, a Des Moines businessman, applied for a license for an "adult" moviehouse in Mason City. The mayor refused to sign the license, but Davis took the case to court and won. "There was nothing we could do then, and nothing we can do now," says Kenneth...