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...Nation of Lovers." His crowds were big and enthusiastic. He drew 200,000 in Des Moines, where Democratic Governor Harold Hughes told him: "This is the greatest reception in the history of Iowa." He attracted 70,000 in Peoria, Ill., and Democratic Senator Paul Douglas said that Lyndon's were "the largest crowds I've ever seen in central Illinois." Some 250,000 jammed downtown Louisville for his motorcade, 85,000 shouldered their way into Nashville's War Memorial Square, 40,000 assembled in Indianapolis...
...more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first...
...beginning, Eberhard has doubled sales and tripled profits since he became president in 1954, recently launched a $41 million research drive. One result: Caterpillar's next innovation will be a gas turbine tractor engine. Preparing for the future, Caterpillar this year will begin building a new headquarters in Peoria, its home town since its founding...
...Some day our own brains might be used as "cheap computers"-very possibly without our acquiescence. Instead of eternal rest, part of us may end up programming how many boxes of the new detergent should be shipped to the Peoria warehouse in the first quarter. Best recommendation for cremation I ever heard...
Romper Room is something unique in television among shows of any kind. It is seen in Anchorage, Bismarck, Green Bay, Montreal, New York, Dallas, Albany, Peoria, Boston, Phoenix-in 94 cities at present with 25 more to be added this fall in Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Scotland; yet there is a different teacher with differ ent children on the air each day in every city where the show is seen. It is the only TV program that is, in TV parlance, syndicated live...