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The Sound & the Fury. In Des Moines, bogged down in a line of autos, Motorist Norma Bailey leaned long on her horn, then watched as a man got out of the car ahead, calmly raised her vehicle's hood, disconnected the horn wires, got back in his car and...
In Des Moines's Roosevelt High School another bright boy had a different problem. He did his work conscientiously, but he usually kept mum in class because he "didn't want to be the one who always knew the answer."
Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the...
As Goes the Farmer. Leo Hoegh's political problems are all bound up in the character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000...
Some protest that Hoegh's calling out of the National Guard to enforce a highway safety program was a "grandstand" play. Others believe that Hoegh's flying over the state to survey drought areas in a National Guard plane was a waste of public funds (though they were...