Word: wisconsin
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Others believe the race is a very serious matter. "We came here to race," said a University of Wisconsin oarsman. "It's one of the few chances for us to get any real competition...
During a vacation to her rural Wisconsin home in the fall of 1974, Frances Hill watched television interviewers talk with farm women about the dispute then raging between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Farmer's Organization. The women on TV were all middle-level farm organizers, Hill said recently, who in the past had worked beside their husbands, providing crucial economic services. But they had been expected to remain ladylike at the same time, and had never been permitted to participate in decision-making or public affairs...
...political candidates it should come as something of quick, quick, quick relief to learn that their high-priced campaign ads on TV really pay off. Or so the American Psychological Association convention was told last week. Charles Atkin, a Michigan State University professor who has studied elections in Colorado, Wisconsin and Michigan, noted that more than 60% of the people whom he surveyed claimed that TV ads helped them decide which candidate to vote...
...livestock business, fully 75% of the herd has already been sold off. Although cattlemen have been losing as much as $150 on every head, cash receipts so far have postponed widespread financial disaster. But the three-year dry spell, which has also affected large areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa (TIME, July 26), is now pushing ranchers to the end of their credit lines. Leland Sivertsen, for example, has been trying, without much luck, to get emergency money from the Farmers Home Administration to keep his yearling business going. "To get money," he explains...
...enough to overcome resentment over the recession. Bob Dole's Kansas seems as secure for Ford as Fritz Mondale's Minnesota seems safe for Carter. Ford also should carry Nebraska, but Iowa and the Dakotas are anybody's race. The President might score an upset in usually liberal Wisconsin; Milwaukee is heavily populated by ethnic minorities, and the countryside is generally conservative...