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Dianne M. Pytel Tiffin, Ohio...
...highest literacy rates, 99.5%, in the U.S.), affluent and increasingly cultivated. Chief Political Reporter James Flansburg, who patiently shares his expertise with hordes of out-of-state journalists, says he writes for "the boys around the stove in my father's hardware store in Tiffin, Iowa. You have to speak plainly or get your ass chewed." The boys, he quickly adds, are sophisticated businessmen who run farms worth millions of dollars. Says Gartner: "The Register reader cares more about news and current events than people in other places...
...Tiffin, Ohio...
...Like many small liberal arts colleges, tiny (596 men, 503 women) Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, has been having trouble recruiting students. Now, perhaps inspired by the Detroit automakers' rebate plan to increase sales...
...shrewd, petulant and uncharitable observations. Toward Eisenhower, Patton was often privately savage, especially when he thought Ike was being too cozy with the British. He noted that Eisenhower had started wearing suede shoes, "à la British." To his wife Beatrice he wrote that Ike "spoke of lunch as 'tiffin' and of gasoline as 'petrol.' I truly fear that London has conquered Abilene." Because Eisenhower said he regarded himself as an Ally rather than specifically an American, Patton said he was "damned near to being Benedict Arnold...