1.   Atchison does not fit the typical image of a prairie town.

2.   After graduating from college a few years ago, Marty Beanblossom did something that would once have seemed remarkable for an ambitious young man from this Midwestern prairie town.

3.   After dawn, his campaign plane and press plane flew to Russell, the prairie town where he was born.

4.   But there has been no small measure of nostalgia for the arsenal that put prairie towns like Langdon in the center of world affairs.

5.   He has not had any problems with Specter, who grew up in the same small prairie town, Russell, Kan., as Dole did.

6.   His escape from a desolate prairie town where there used to be a powerful Kansas City franchise is long overdue.

7.   On a hot summer night, one end of prairie town would literally come ablaze with light.

8.   That is a peace of mind not shared by Muriel Budde in Norfolk, Nebraska, a prairie town.

9.   The film is set in a prairie town, Hi-Lo, N.M., mostly in the days after World War II.

10.   Using high-tech methods approved by a national council of veterinarians, a research team in this small prairie town is testing a variety of lethally named contraptions.