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...Viet Nam War by increasing hopes for a peace settlement to aid his re-election campaign. They call the charges themselves cynical campaign tactics, and some say they believe the President has done a commendable job and is sincerely pushing for a negotiated settlement. Says Stephen Moorhead, a Northbrook, Ill., lawyer: "Nixon's done the best job he could with the situation he inherited and without losing face. McGovern would negotiate in weakness." Rex Stevens, an Indianapolis salesman, believes the McGovern campaign has actually endangered chances for a negotiated settlement: "Hanoi now will hold off negotiations until after...
...Norwegian had obviously never visited Northbrook, III. (see box, page 51), which produced Dianne Holum, 20, Anne Henning, 16, and three other members of the U.S.'s 16-mem-ber speed-skating team. Dianne turned U.S. fortunes around in short order. The smoothly striding brunette put on a strong closing drive in the 1.500-meter race to win the U.S.'s first gold medal with a new Olympic record time of 2:20.85. Then it was Anne's turn. Matched with Canada's Sylvia Burka in the 500 meters, she lost at least a full second...
...casual visitor, Northbrook, Ill., is just another quiet bedroom community on the outskirts of Chicago. To the 27,000 citizens who live there, it has always been the busy, bristling "Speed-Skating Capital of America." Until recently there may have been some doubters of that heady claim. Not now. Not after two of the town's favorite daughters, Anne Henning and Dianne Holum, skated off with gold medals in the 1972 Winter Games. Indeed, the local Chamber of Commerce has already begun to engrave its stationery with a new slogan: "Speed-Skating Capital of the World...
...Northbrook? For one thing, there is Ed Rudolph, 60, a onetime high school skating champion who has devoted nearly 20 years to training Northbrook youngsters in his sport. A landscape contractor who also serves as the Northbrook park commissioner, Rudolph began his program by designing baseball diamonds that could be frozen over in the winter for skating. With strong financial and moral support from the townspeople, he has since been instrumental in adding a modern indoor facility that is in operation 24 hours a day throughout the weekends...
...life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such that many young skaters have to drop out of school and study with a tutor. To pay the $1,000 to $2,000 a year that it takes for the care and feeding of a skater, some Northbrook mothers take part-time jobs. Is it worth it? Anne's father, Bill Henning, thinks so. "The U.S. is the only country in the Northern Hemisphere where speed skating is not a major sport," he explains. "Our hope is to make...