Word: wisconsin
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Several other Republicans are interested in the job but are probably too closely tied to one wing of the party or another. They include outgoing Washington Governor Daniel Evans and Wisconsin G.O.P. Committeeman Ody Fish, who both supported Ford, and Utah Republican State Chairman Dick Richards, an early Reagan backer. Among the more remote possibilities for the job is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Rummy" is one of the very few Ford Cabinet members who openly talks of a future in elective politics (see box page 24). But at 44, with scant savings and three children in school...
...southeastern Kansas that usually gives 60% of its vote to the G.O.P. contender, Ford won by 8,410 to 6,920-or only 54%. Carter also made inroads in the Republican farm vote in Oklahoma's northwestern wheat country, and was put over the top in his Wisconsin win by farmers...
...scheme to cheat the U.S. military procurement agency in South Korea. Bids by Korean contractors have been routinely rigged at meetings that were called "tangos." At these conclaves, the chosen bidder paid a "tango fee," which was channeled to the KCIA. Said Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin: "Collusive bidding practices, backed with strong-arm enforcement by Korean contractors is costing American taxpayers $15 to $25 million annually...
Gusto Game. Whatever they called it, the networks spent the evening in furious competition, playing with gusto the game they had vowed not to engage in this outing. After ABC and NBC guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed...
...Glaze. Still, both Ford and Carter have an inner circle of permanent scribes who know their candidates all too well. One day in Wisconsin, Ford reached the punch line of his basic speech ("A Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have"), and the press corps began chanting loudly along with him. Explains NBC Correspondent Bob Jamieson: "The eye-glaze factor begins about the same time each...