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MISSISSIPPI. Republican Trent Lott has been the heir presumptive to John Stennis' seat ever since the venerable Democrat lost a leg to cancer in 1984. The only question was when. Now that Stennis has retired, there are new questions. Democratic Congressman Wayne Dowdy is backed by the popular Stennis. But Dowdy, who enjoys strong support from blacks (one-third of the voting population), must cut into the white vote...
...seems to be the only cliche he has avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March, reportedly of leukemia. Jacobs and his business partner Cayton...
...corner!" Lott exclaims. "To be in the dressing room! In that room before the fight, just the four of us, our heartbeats are deafening. When it gets really quiet, it's almost a despair. I don't know what it is. Maybe we don't want it to be over." Coming to life on the subject, Tyson says, "That's my favorite time, just before. I'm so calm. The work is over. You fight and you go home. Before or after, I don't respect any of them more than another. What they look like doesn't really matter...
...cutting summit, in which they have been struggling for two weeks to compromise on a minimum of $23 billion in reductions. For the first time, Republican leaders came up with a proposal containing tax increases that President Reagan gave hints he might accept. It was, declared Republican Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, a "bold stroke. Fair, simple, direct...
...alone. Now even that consolation seems pointless. Six months after her miscarriage, which has driven Rick into self-absorbed guilt and silence, Paige has moved out. The question of whether this marriage can or should be saved generates some suspense. More interesting, though, are the paces Author Bret Lott puts his hero through during the ordeal of wifelessness. Living without Paige and most of the furniture, which she took with her, Rick fills up his empty days by becoming a demon salesman. He is so good that he attracts the attention of his bosses. Yet he realizes that even with...