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From Phoenix to Des Moines to Minot, Rocky has spent the past two months crisscrossing the country, talking the issues, praising the old-fashioned values and rallying the party faithful in their dark hour of Watergate. Not even employing the usual political camouflage and persiflage, the Governor was clearly off...
Nearly 30 years have passed since Dana Andrews pursued Jeanne Grain across the Des Moines fairground to the accompanying strains of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Andrews is a grandfather by now, and Jeanne Grain makes the rounds of TV talk shows, but the state fairs of the Midwest remain almost immutable...
"The Iowa State Fair is a small city unto itself," says Fair Director Ken Fulk. "In fact, it's a mecca." Mecca indeed. This year the 400 acres of fairgrounds in Des Moines have attracted nearly 650,000 visitors in ten days. Farm families from Iowa towns like Burlington...
For a journalist, the job of covering the President of the U.S. is always a plum, but its size, color and flavor change with each occupant of the Oval Office. Dean Fischer knows this well. When he joined TIME in 1964 after earning a master's degree in history...
Tortured Rationale. A common theme in the minority report is the admonition to critics of the President to slow down a bit. The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch describes the nation "as caught in a whirlpool of rumors, innuendoes and unsubstantiated charges that threatens to pull it inexorably to the presently...