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...Omaha, Neb., Miller cried: "When all is said and done, there's only one real issue in this campaign-character versus corruption. And in Barry Goldwater we have the character, and they can have the corruption." In Reno, Nev., Miller condemned the Administration's war on poverty as "a cruel hoax on the American people, put into effect two months before the election, not with any thought of correcting poverty but only to buy votes for Lyndon Johnson with taxpayers' money...
...Denver, Miller cried that the Democrats "have given us Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes. And Lyndon Johnson had the colossal nerve at Atlantic City to go before the American people and say, 'Let us continue.'" In Lincoln, Neb., he told an airport crowd about what might happen if Johnson wins the election: "I suppose we will have George Meany as head of the Small Business Administration and Bobby Baker as Secretary of the Treasury." In Columbus, he struck out at possible Democratic dirty work at the polls: "Maybe we're being optimistic, but we hope that...
Massive, mustachioed, cigar-chomping Roscoe Pound was the precocious son of a local judge in Lincoln, Neb. "My blamed memory," he used to say. was so photographic that as a boy he broke up Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. At 12, he entered the University of Nebraska, at 17, emerged as a first-rate botanist, and between studying and practicing the law, he found time to earn a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska, which now boasts a rare lichen called roscopoundia...
Cotton (N.H.) Jordan (Idaho) Curtis (Neb.) Mechem (N.Mex.) Dominick (Colo.) Smith (Me.) Hickenlooper (Iowa) J .J. Williams (Del.) Hruska (Neb.) M.R. Young...
...Hamp was at Manhattan's Café Metropole, where the band is strung out behind the bar like a police lineup. Woody and his men were trudging through the sticks playing just the kind of one-nighters that build character and make big bands dear to novelists: Columbus, Neb., to Grand Island, Neb.; Grand Island to Fort Riley, Kans.; Fort Riley to Pryor, Okla...