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Much more listening will be necessary. Talking to farmers in Sedalia, Mo., Quayle floundered when he tried to explain his opposition to a major farm bill. Asked his view of a complex local agricultural issue, he replied with a joke: "Whatever you guys want, I'm for." That echoed his opportunistic statement to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago that a July vote against the creation of a Cabinet-level Veterans Department was a "mistake" resulting from "youthful indiscretion." He later tried to deny using the phrase, even though it had been broadcast on national TV, then explained that...
Peanuts. Or so says a desperate, despairing physician in The Day After. Even Hiroshima was peanuts compared with the irrevocable thermonuclear slaughter visited on Kansas City and its environs. Lawrence. Sedalia. Green Ridge. They have all been devastated. But this is not some horrible, local nuclear accident. This is worldwide atomic warfare. The missiles have been launched, the bombs have gone off. The global village has been nuked...
Died. Zachariah ("Zack") Davis Wheat, 83, Brooklyn Dodger hero for nearly two decades; of a heart attack; in Sedalia, Mo. From his first season as a Dodger in 1909, Wheat's trademarks were a distinctive shimmy in the batter's box and a screaming line drive that earned him the 1918 National League batting title, a lifetime average of .317, and election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Once characterized as "165 Ibs. of scrap iron, rawhide and guts," Wheat set team records for total hits (2,804), games played (2,318) and times...
Iowa-based Sedalia, Marshall, Boonville and Stage Line...
...usual fees and took the prodigy in hand. After Joplin's mother died, the youngster had a falling out with his father and at 14 left home to take up the life of a honky-tonk pianist. He wandered to St. Louis, Chicago, and finally in 1894 to Sedalia, Mo., picking up work mostly in brothels and lowlife clubs...