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...Midwestern Democrats, about 1,000 of them, seemed to be having a rollicking good time at their party conference. Gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind., near the Lost River, they cheered waiters who balanced trays on their heads, made ribald jokes about the laxative effects of French Lick water. Only one thing kept nagging at them-worry about this fall's elections...
...Midwestern Democrats concluded...
...most respects, Bloomington, Ill. (pop. 36,800), is a typical bustling Midwestern market city. The one thing that makes Bloomington a bit different from the run-of-the-mill county seat is the presence of its largest employer, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. This week State Farm will report that its premium income for the first half of this year was up nearly 11% to $281 million, and that in May the company signed up its seven millionth policyholder. All this handily helped State Farm hold its rank as the world's largest automobile insurance company...
...Turkey. In his 31 years as a Foreign Service officer, Ohio-born Kohler has rarely made headlines. He even looks far more like the bank teller he once was than like the suave, striped-pants stereotype of a professional diplomat; smallish and rumpled, he speaks in a flat Midwestern accent and wears indifferently tailored brown or blue suits. But he is regarded in Washington as a highly competent operator, and his considerable experience with the Russians goes back a long way. He speaks Russian, which has become a prerequisite for the top Moscow job. He was assigned to Moscow...
...Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring it out on the record and don't give it to a favored newsman." Freeman shrugged off the complaint: "There was no reason we shouldn't have conducted...