Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mississippi is the Magnolia State, but by many measures it is a faded flower. Its archaic constitution prohibits dueling and admonishes the Governor to sneak into the treasurer's office at night to count all the state's money. Its youngsters are not required by law to attend school. Its people have the lowest per capita annual income in the nation ($3,803). Its dominant Democratic Party has grown sluggish after 100 years of unbroken rule. But as it approaches a gubernatorial election on Nov. 4, some new breezes are blowing on the old magnolia. Two sometime mavericks...
...almost melancholy temperament: Princess Sophia of Greece, a Girl Scout chief captain, amateur archaeologist and pediatric nurse. With their three children-Elena, 11, Cristina, 10, and Felipe, 7-the royal couple now live at state expense in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace, a modern residence surrounded by formal flower gardens and well protected by police...
...hope I'll still be sexy," fretted German-born Actress Elke Sommer, who faces her 34th birthday next week and an upcoming stage role as an older woman in Cactus Flower. Male viewers of Sommer's newest movie, The Net, will probably see little cause for her concern. Cast as a kittenish prostitute on the run from a maniacal killer, Elke displays her talents in one scene through an all-leather outfit she bought in Chicago. "I loved it and wanted to wear it barefoot during the filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer...
...left Four Ashes, a 16-acre estate near the pleasant village of Knowle, 25 miles from Darlaston. The rambling, rose-covered "cottage," which Owen bought three years ago for $73,000, has a main section that dates from the 16th century. It is surrounded by spacious lawns, well-tended flower beds, a small pond and a paddock for Granby, the family pony. Later in the day the Owens' two oldest children−Rebecca, 8, and Sarah, 6−will receive riding lessons from their handsome blonde mother Elizabeth, 33, John's stepcousin as well as wife, the adopted...
...still persists, particularly in humid, swampy areas. Of the 100-odd victims in the hardest-hit Mississippi town of Greenville (pop. 40,000), many live in the poorest part of town. Of those infected in Illinois, most live near cemeteries, where mosquito larvae have been flourishing in water-filled flower vases...