Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are 29 teams from eight different regions competing in the 10,000-meter race, scheduled to take place this morning at the University of Wisconsin's Yahara Hills, including last year's title-winner, Oregon...
Coach Bill McCurdy stresses that the team is up in Wisconsin to run the race and the whole team knows it, but "without looking through Crimson glasses, I have to say we're going to be faced with the fastest pace we've ever seen...
...rolling hills of the Wisconsin course favor strong, tough runners rather than speedsters, and Sheehan hopes that those conditions (the forecast for Monday is rainy, with temperatures in the mid-30s) will aid the Crimson and slow down the Midwesterners...
...President, the numbers of party victories were less troubling than the particular winners and losers. Potentially strong Republicans had captured key governorships: Richard Thornburgh in Pennsylvania, William Clements in Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was re-elected Governor of Michigan. Perhaps most threatening of all, Jim Thompson won re-election in Illinois by 600,000 votes-demonstrating that he is a moderate Republican with broad appeal in a big industrial state. He has not denied that he might run for President in 1980. Said Thompson: "The Republican...
...host of other special interest groups, PACs had contributed more than $60 million at the mid-point of the campaign, as compared with spending a total of $23 million in the last presidential election. There were some signs of a backlash against the growing influence of the PACs. Wisconsin Governor-elect Dreyfus singled them out for special obloquy in his rambunctious quasipopulist campaign against the special interests...