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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The traveler, a Middle Westerner turned self-made Eastern snob, assumes nothing else interesting has ever happened in Bloomington. The traveler is wrong. Bloomington, Ill., is the county seat of McLean County. If you are talking corn and soybeans, McLean County is the capital of the world. If you are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

At last, the bottle was unsealed. Barbara Dunbar, director of the historical society, and Archivist Greg Koos used forceps to draw out the little mummies, wrapped in white linen and tied round and round with thread. General McNulta's sense of history turned out to be touchingly immediate. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The history of McLean County during this century is mostly a story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

-In the United Nations, representatives of Communist and Third World countries, as well as traditional U.S. allies in Europe, denounced Iran for holding the hostages and demanded their "release immediately." The unanimous 15-0 vote in the U.N. Security Council was a rare show of support for the U.S. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Hostages in Danger | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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