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...Lynds predicted that secularization and a generation gap would come to Muncie slowly, while citizens clung to the old values. That is just about what happened, according to the new researchers. Says Warren Vander Hill, a historian at Ball State who has worked on many post-Lynd Muncie studies: "First you learn to roll with the punches and accept things that were unacceptable, then you hold onto those very basic ideas about life with an even tighter grip...
Jefferson Vander Wolk plays the Grand Inquisitor, a Machiavellian type who kidnapped the prince to prevent the spread of Wesleyanism, with less character. Vander Wolk's voice is strong, but for a powerbroker his appearance is rather wraith-like until he trips awkwardly into songs...
Michigan's Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt elevates the tax issue to geophysical dimensions. "It is a tidal wave," he says, after a week of listening to complaints on a trip from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class...
Finally, the most prominent citizen of Grand Rapids could at least take consolation from the fact that his old House seat will again be held by a Republican. Democrat Richard F. Vander Veen, 53, who succeeded Gerald Ford in a special 1974 election, was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Harold Sawyer, 56, who had been an aggressive county prosecutor...
...vote in 1964, v. 43% for Barry Gold water. In 1972 Richard Nixon beat George Mc-Govern by almost exactly the same margin. All the while, Ford kept his seat with majorities of 60% or more. Even so, Jerry Ford's successor in Congress is a Democrat, Richard Vander Veen...