Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placed bouquets of Enchantment lilies in vases, part of an enormous floral display. "We postponed our retirement," said Mary Kay. "We were supposed to move to San Diego the first of October, but when we heard the Pope was coming we stayed." To decorate the altar platform, 15 Wisconsin volunteers staged a two-week quilting bee to stitch together a 10-ft. square banner done in burnt orange, sky blue and leafy green...
...dawn, staff members of the tiny Madison Press Connection (circ. 11,398) were distributing copies of an eight-page "extra" edition around Wisconsin's capital. The innocuous-sounding front-page headline: A CITIZEN WRITES TO A SENATOR. The incendiary subject: hydrogen bomb "secrets" with details and even a crude diagram. Whether any of it could result in an actual bomb would soon be bitterly debated. What was immediately clear was that the paper had blown apart the legal vises tightened against three other publications seeking to print H-bomb exposés and, for the moment, headed...
...crumble. During the recess, Arizona Congressman Morris Udall won applause whenever he told constituents that Carter should be given the benefit of the doubt, but he found that the same audiences favored Ted Kennedy over Carter by two to one. Democratic Congressman Dave Obey discovered that most of his Wisconsin constituents doubted that Carter would be reelected, though many of them wished he could be. Said Obey: "The people have not decided whether Carter is being worked over as a good man in a sinful world or whether he just can't cut it. They haven't made...
Governor James Thompson is being cultivated and allowed to envision himself as a potential Vice President. In April's Wisconsin and Pennsylvania primaries, Connally hopes to take on either
Insurance men grudgingly admire Shernoffs courtroom mastery. Says one: "He can get a jury really worked up." Yet Shernoff, who grew up in Wisconsin farm country, has none of the slickness of the stereotypical, California personal-injury lawyer. Says he: "My English isn't the greatest, but I know what I'm doing: the little guy against the insurance giant...