Word: nebraska
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...campaign for Governor, few Nebraskans outside his home town of Wausa (pop. 725) had ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell...
...NEBRASKA...
This month, Tiemann gave his constituents their toughest spelling lesson to date. By a 38-to-ll vote, the new Governor pushed through Nebraska's conservative, unicameral legislature a sales-income tax package that left New Hampshire the only state in the union with neither a sales nor an income tax. Nebraska still stands far down the list of states on public services. It is 39th in educational expenditures per pupil, 41st in teachers' salaries, last in state aid to public schools. Though its two conservative Republican senators-Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-have given the state...
...been telling them much the same thing. In his inaugural address, he warned that the only alternative to growing federal dominance was "the development of more responsive and more responsible state government." When he submitted his tax package to the legislature, he declared. "It is time to turn Nebraska loose...
Though the fetters are strong, tight and timehonored, Tiemann has gone a long way toward doing just that. "It's as if Nebraska has been shaken awake like some long-slumbering Rip Van Winkle," remarks a Lincoln Star political writer, "and is not too happy at the abrupt and rude awakening...