Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Carter Administration was making extensive plans to entertain Teng when he makes his state visit to the U.S. later this month. The proposed program includes a trip to Texas, where Teng can discuss buying oil equipment, a journey to a big Midwestern farm and an extravaganza at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, naturally, General...
...Psychiatrist Don M. LaGrone. Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, LaGrone says that alcoholism is high in military families, child abuse is five times the national average, and Army brats are brought in for psychiatric treatment in unusually high numbers. During his two-year stint at an unidentified Midwestern military base, LaGrone reported, 12% of all children and adolescents on the base came to his clinic for psychiatric help. Of these, 4% were diagnosed as psychotic...
...nation, where Republican victories jolted the long dominant Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (see box). Of significance elsewhere for the political future were the solid gains made by Republicans in a number of state legislatures. The G.O.P. went into the election controlling both houses of legislature in only two Midwestern states (South Dakota and Nebraska) but won enough victories to take over both chambers in four additional states: Iowa, Kansas, Indiana and North Dakota. In influential Illinois, Republicans made strong gains in both houses of the legislature, only narrowly missing control...
...large numbers, and Short was trounced in the Senate vote by Republican David Durenberger, 44, a Minneapolis lawyer. Durenberger's margin was some 400,000 votes. Anderson was defeated by Rudy Boschwitz, 48, a lanky Jewish émigré from Nazi Germany and millionaire founder of a Midwestern chain of stores selling home-construction and remodeling materials...