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...candidate with a commanding lead in the polls is Illinois Republican Lynn Martin, 40, who is running for the House seat being vacated by John Anderson in a district that has never sent a Democrat to Congress. A Julie Andrews lookalike, Martin is a former public school teacher in Rockford who was elected a county commissioner in 1971, a state representative in 1976, and a state senator in 1978. Her hard-driving interest in cutting the state budget caused colleagues to nickname...
...three more chances in the late third and early fourth quarters, and the Rockford, Ill., native (Rep. John B. Anderson lives down the street) lofted punts of 50, 31 and 51 yards. As Restic said after the game, "Those two long punts bailed...
...when only 17 of the 400 banks that have extended Chrysler some $4.4 billion in private credit decided, each for its own reason, not to go along with the rescue plan. For example, Chrysler owed a relatively minor $525,000 to the American National Bank and Trust Co. of Rockford, Ill., but President David Knapp was personally opposed to the federal rescue of the company. He also seemed to be enjoying a chance to display his displeasure on the national stage, as television cameras followed him around and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller telephoned to ask his cooperation...
...accounts from some of the banks. The tiny Crestwood Metro Bank in St. Louis, which was owed less than $500,000, received telephone calls or visits from Steven Miller, Chrysler's assistant treasurer, John McGillicuddy, chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Treasury Secretary Miller. It quickly capitulated. Rockford's American National Bank and Trust, which was considered the hardest sell, received an anonymous bomb threat. It soon agreed...