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...politicians. Fortunately, both guys will win: Leahy will win the election for Senate, and Fred will win our hearts. And the movie Man with a Plan, which provided the scenario for Tuttle's campaign, wins too by satirizing the incredible insanity of U.S. campaign finance. ROBERTA BICKNELL PIPER Murphysboro...
...quiet Friday evening a snarling 60-lb. dog-part shepherd, part collie-sat itself on the front porch of Pauline Maerker's house in the small (pop. 10,000), southern Illinois farm community of Murphysboro. When Maerker's daughter, Ruth Ann, 27, tried to walk out of the house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that...
...significant landmark in U.S education. To his "students," Fishback fired a fat new reading list of 35 books and pamphlets; he was also arranging four mass forums for them. To the school officials involved, the transformed boards, once of little or no help, are becoming enlightened allies. Said neighboring Murphysboro's delighted Superintendent William Carruthers: "Never . . . have I seen a school board take such an interest in finding out what schools are doing. They are actually reading books on school practices...
...Port. In Murphysboro. Ill., running from police who wanted to question him about a bad check. Sanford Burgess, 45, panted into the basement of a building which he discovered, too late, was the Jackson County courthouse...
Cropped. In Murphysboro, Ill., an optimistic barber overheard Farmers Bill and Arthur Guetterslau complaining about their sour luck, promptly traded a haircut and a shave for 150 acres of flooded wheat...