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...Soviet Union. In Montgomery County, a rural wheat-growing area in southeastern Kansas that usually gives 60% of its vote to the G.O.P. contender, Ford won by 8,410 to 6,920-or only 54%. Carter also made inroads in the Republican farm vote in Oklahoma's northwestern wheat country, and was put over the top in his Wisconsin win by farmers...
...sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bellow has won three National Book Awards and has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, McGill and Northwestern universities...
Brandeis also announced the appointment of Alexandra Bellow, the novelist's wife, as the Ziskind Visiting Professor of Mathematics. Alexandra Bellow has taught mathematics at Northwestern University since...
...like rooting for Northwestern in the Big 10. The Wildcats lost their 15th straight game on Saturday before the smallest crowd in their modern history, and they don't have the resources to match Ohio State, Notre Dame, or Michigan in the Midwest recruiting wars. There's just no light at the end of their tunnel, and there's no light at the end of the one in Baltimore either...
...TIME correspondents generally saw no clear winner. "I wouldn't think either man was damaged," said Louis Koenig, professor of government at New York University. Historian Theodore Kovaleff of Barnard College disagreed: "Carter went in a clear leader and he came out looking terribly poor." Asked who won, Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti replied with a derisive comment on the audio breakdown, "The Luddites," a reference to the early 19th century workers who smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting high school platitudes...