The States: New Way to Spell Nebraska

When he began his campaign for Governor, few Nebraskans outside his home town of Wausa (pop. 725) had ever heard of Republican Norbert Tiemann. To overcome that disadvantage, Nobby" Tiemann, 42, son of a Lutheran minister, dotted the state with billboards and filled the airwaves with spot commercials plugging the slogan: TIEMANN, Nebraska's New Way to Spell Governor." What the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), trim, small-town banker was actually telling the voters was that the time had come to find a new way to spell

NEBRASKA.

This month, Tiemann gave his constituents...