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...place: the Mississippi of the late 1950s and early '60s, a state infamous for its violent resistance to black equality, even as it began to offer undreamed-of opportunities to the bright children of blue-collar whites. Lott, the son of a schoolteacher and a sharecropper turned shipyard pipe fitter, not only could get loans to enter the University of Mississippi, the state's top nursery of political talent; he also joined a prestigious fraternity, Sigma...
...bureau chief, grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only son of a shipyard machinist. So we thought he might be well suited to report and write this week's profile of Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who also grew up in Pascagoula, the only son of a shipyard pipe fitter. Goodgame is so familiar with Lott's milieu that many sources he interviewed began by asking him "So how's your mama?" When one source wasn't in, he was found at a meeting with Goodgame's uncle. "Everyone back home is so proud of Trent Lott," Goodgame says, "that...
Boris Yeltsin has been hospitalized with an apparent heart attack for the second time in four months. Although dogged by persistent health problems, the 64-year-old Russian President had appeared fitter in recent weeks, enough so to challenge French President Jacques Chirac to a tennis match. "Considering that Yeltsin has already outlived the average Russian male by seven years, Yeltsin's condition can be considered serious," says TIME's Sally Donnelly in Moscow. "It is unknown how long he will remain in the hospital, although a week is the common period. However, the three presidents from the former Yugoslavia...
CHARLIE THE TUNA After 12 years at sea, he's trimmer and fitter and back...
...with it, the notion of smoking as a soothing arbiter of middle-class behavior. Like the loosening of a necktie, it signaled a relaxation into informality at the end of a meal or the start of a baseball game, before drinks or after sex. Even for the solitary steam fitter or housewife, the act of sending a geyser from mouth to ceiling could envelop the user in a penumbra of calm thoughtfulness. It was an empyrean for daydreams -- the cloud of smoke our thoughts went...