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...prairie from St. Louis to Chicago. A traveler notices the sign -POPULATION 41,500-and wonders why the place resonates slightly in the mind. Is this the Bloomington of the movie Breaking Away? No, that Bloomington is in Indiana. Ah! Memory serves. This Bloomington is the place where Adlai Stevenson II grew up a renegade (i.e., a Democrat) and now lies buried with his ancestors, men of substance in the town since the very beginning; men who had urged a Republican circuit lawyer named Abraham Lincoln to run for President...
...Katie Maloney St. Louis I enjoyed the shoeless Jane Byrne. The picture reminded me of Adlai Stevenson with the hole in his sole. She not wanting to wear hers out, he not wanting to waste money having his repaired-my, aren't our politicians frugal...
Senators Adlai Stevenson III (D-I11.) and Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) are sponsoring bills that would establish some form of federal oil corporation, and California assemblyman Tom Bates is advocating an initiative to do the same thing on a state level. These campaigns face stiff opposition funded by the bloated budgets of the oil bureaucracies. They can only win success by convincing the public that the free enterprise system, our national security and the American way of life hang in the balance...
Perhaps psychedup by a pre-game ceremony dedicating the field to their coach, Cliff Stevenson, Brown looked like the best 2-8 team in the land. That record is in fact deceptive, as the Bruins have lost by a single goal to the likes of UConn and Princeton...
SUCH DEFERENCE for J.P. Stevens humanizes the inhumane reputation the company has earned among unionized workers across the country. Company workers personify their employer. Seduced by corporation propaganda, Stevens' workers personify the company, calling it "Stevenson" or "J.P." When told of its efforts to increase production at the expense of its employees, Conway notes that one worker remarked, "Oh, J.P. wouldn't do that." It follows then that since 1963, Stevens workers have voted against unionization in 13 of 14 elections held in the company's plants...