Rest area wonders and Info Site guide near Interstate 80
Travelers swap can opener favors at a Cedar Rapids rest stop beside I 80. The north side rest area hosts Info Site exhibits on Iowa sites, Hoover birthplace, Amana colonies, and travel tips, with attendants Spear and McLean explaining the government funded project and its purpose along 41,000 miles of federal highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Spear
Tipton
George Blackburn
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Hoover
Spear
Gale McLean
Wilton Junction
Cedar Rapids
Here
Chicago
Stoner System
United States
Victor
Iowa
Polls Mail and Chats Shape Iowa Delegates at Convention
Iowa Republicans seek a winner at the national convention amid 1960 and 1964 losses. Nine favor Dick Nixon, four back Nelson Rockefeller, five want a relatively new face, and Ronald Reagan is also in contention among delegates in this Atlantic city reporting by Frank Nye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sami Beach
Iowa
Atlantic Coast
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Dick Nixon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
California
Ronald Reagan
Iowa delegates split on Nixon Rockefeller and Reagan
The Iowa GOP caucus at the Casablanca hotel in Miami Beach pins hopes on a winner with delegates backing Nixon Rockefeller and Reagan while several remain undecided. Notables include Hickenlooper Reed Gross Coles Faber Norris Van Nostrand Miller Ball Ellsworth Redeker and Van Horn as well as Warren Wittenmeyer Smith and others weighing polls mail and state loyalties for a tactics driven choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Iowa
Casablanca Hotel
Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Glen Pardon
Brandon
E. A. Hayes
Mt. Pleasant
John B. Platt
Davenport
Lewis W. Cooley
Fairfield
David O. Shaff
Clinton
L. W. Kehe
Waverly
Mike Fleming
Sibley
Lester C. Mealiff
Humboldt
Reagan
Charles Wittenmeyer
Mary Louise Smith
Des Moines
Jack Warren
Waterloo
Herbert Reed
Panora
Herbert Selby
Newton
Mrs. Reed
Harris
Rockefeller
Herbert Humphrey
Gene McCarthy
Coles
Charlie Gross
Faber
George) Wallace
South
van Horn
Wallace
Rocky
Miller
Upward Bound fuels Regina Doolin toward U of I and King scholarship
Regina Doolin, 17, Cedar Rapids, credits Upward Bound with making college possible. After two summers at the University of Iowa, she will start as a freshman and receive a Martin Luther King scholarship. The program aids disadvantaged students with college exposure and funding.
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Owa City
Regina Doolin
University of Iowa
Regina
U. of I
Martin Luther King
Emmett Doolin
Seventh Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
Federal
Office of Economic Opportunity
Also Mentioned on This Page
G.O.P
Art Hough
Ohio
Massachusetts
Amana
Ralph Theobald
Chicago Heights
Ill
Clare Theobald
Dad Theobald
Frank Nye
Gazette
Caucus Today
WHO
Gallup
Pieee
Hickenlooper
Washington
William Ball
Ball
the Gazette
Ellsworth
Barbara
Goldwater
San Francisco
Phyllis Fleming
Jefferson High School
Upward Bound
National Defense
King
Dr. King
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