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...nothing else, the debate has rallied the plainsmen to search for new ways to deal with the realities of decline -- less water and oil; fewer minerals, people, towns. It has also revealed that a remarkable number of plains residents, like Mathers, have for years been adjusting to the inexorable rhythms of the land...
Another heartstring tug from your American Scene. Thousands of us middle-aged men harbor memories of the rumble and roar of combines [Sept. 4]. For many young Plainsmen in the '50s, it was the price we'd decided to pay for college tuition, books and white-collar dreams fulfilled...
Whatever King's motives, his stunt rapidly became a politically and emotionally charged issue. Tensions rose among the Plainsmen-and between them and reporters and other outsiders who flocked to the town to observe the events at Jimmy Carter's church. One deacon complained to a reporter: "We don't feel like swapping a church for a President. You have made our Sunday into a spectacle." Another deacon, Carter's cousin Hugh, a state senator, told reporters: "We are trying to work out a solution that will keep our church and our community from disintegrating...
...Mayo Clinic for its group practice. Without its surgical and medical care, I would be long dead, left to the caprice of the medical societies of New York and Pennsylvania, with all their universities. They could take a few lessons in bedside manner from the plainsmen...
Scouring the prairie, Wilkinson recruited squads of lean, tall, whippet-fast plainsmen. "Hit hard!" other coaches taught. Wilkinson taught, "Hit first!" Other teams might run 60 offensive plays on a winning afternoon; the go-go Sooners...