Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes, deplaned to begin organizing up to 25,000 fresh Midwestern volunteers pouring in from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa-not to mention a goodly number of the Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience, and one veteran said: "Some of their instruction will have...
Votes & Headlines. But which track? It was still early enough for Rockefeller to enter the Wisconsin, Indiana and Nebraska primaries. To do so would take enormous energy and bravery-some said foolhardiness-because he would be exposing himself to conservative animosity, with virtually no chance of victory. Midwestern Republican leaders questioned by TIME supported this view. The Midwest is essentially Nixon country, and although it contains pockets of Rockefeller sentiment, the leaders agreed that the risks would be far too large. Oregon Governor Tom McCall, who had earlier announced a write-in campaign for Rockefeller in his state, invited...
...Rockefeller is the G.O.P.'s most electable candidate, he is also its least nominatable one. His short-lived attempt to derail Nixon in 1960 and his failure to back Barry Goldwater in 1964 still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention...
Fiancées ,. & Finances. Inevitably, some businessmen have been burned. Rose Jewelers, a twelve-store Midwestern chain that does a brisk credit trade among teenagers, finds that purchasers of engagement rings are apt to skip out on their payments if their fiancées break up with them. In Lake Forest, Ill., Kraft's drugstore, a hangout for local college and prep students, abandoned its credit policy because of the difficulty of collecting accounts as the end of the school year neared...
...from generally conservative newspapers to the ACLU, has probably halted some punitive action that might have followed Hershey's comments. Already, however, a few marchers in Washington have been re-classified; draft resisters were re-classified 1-A from 4-F without a physical examination; a member of a midwestern SDS chapter was re-classified by virtue of his membership; anti-war demonstrators at the University of Michigan have been re-classified; and the list could go on and can be expected to grow. Many guidelines have been thrown overboard by the SSS in its concern to "unify" the nation...