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...ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell...
...coastal city of Ulsan last week, old and new Korea came into symbolic confrontation. The spring mists filtering across the landscape were mixed for the first time with ammonia clouds, and Korean farmers wearing traditional costumes stood side by side with businessmen and government officials in trim, Western-style business suits. All had gathered for the dedication of the Korea Fertilizer Co.'s new urea plant, which, with an annual capacity of 330,000 tons of fertilizer, will be one of the world's largest. Presiding over the ceremonies, suitably enough, was Byung Chull Lee, 57, the plant...
...Squeeze, Trim. Should Nixon stumble, the ideal fallback candidate, to conservatives, would be Reagan, 56. William Buckley's National Review calls him "as strong a candidate as the Republican Party can field...
...such aspirations. "Look," he says with a winning smile and a nervous tug at his right ear, "I am not a candidate for President. I have a pretty big job right here." He does indeed. Elected by nearly 1,000,000 votes on a promise to "cut, squeeze and trim" spending, he has submitted the largest state budget in U.S. history-$5.06 billion. Having promised to keep taxes down, he has proposed the biggest one-shot tax increase ever -$946 million...
...heard right now." The Clays have had a stormy marriage, and most family members believe that their battles, which often were refereed at the local police precinct in Louisville, contributed to young Cassius' wavering hold on his emotions. Today, mother and father hold court in a trim bungalow in Louisville. In the driveway stand two castoff Cadillacs from Cassius, "His" and "Hers." Odessa still tries to keep a semblance of cool around the house, while Old Cassius tromps around thinking up ideas for commercial schemes-food endorsements, perhaps a nationwide chain of "Clay's Kitchens" or "Clay...