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David Rhodes, in a brilliant first novel called The Last Fair Deal Going Down, shows he knows about the Midwest. Because Rhodes grew up out of it, loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf...
Last week Des Moines' biggest supplier, MacMillan Oil Co., shut off deliveries to more than 50 major customers, including businesses, colleges and apartment houses, all of which will have to find new fuel sources or go cold. Wolf's Department Store, the Polk County Jaii and St. John...
THE MIDWEST is picking up in line with, or slightly better than, the national trend. Unemployment in the Chicago area is down to 3.5%. Along the lakefront ten skyscrapers are being built or planned. In the Kansas City area the dollar volume of residential construction during the first three-quarters...
There's less time for chess now than there was back home in Des Moines, but it doesn't seem to have hurt Frankle's play. "Since I've come to college I haven't had a chance to practice as much as I used to," he said. "But sometimes...
In his U.P.I, speech last week, McGovern continued to insist that "I handled the matter of Senator Eagleton's candidacy with compassion and with genuine concern for the best interests of the nation. The nation can ill afford to debate this issue while death stalks the face of Indochina...