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Despite these misgivings, the people who know Ferraro would not lose any sleep if she were next in line for the presidency. "She is extremely competent," says Louisiana's Gillis Long, chairman of the House Democratic caucus. "She's a good word." And politician how in does the best Ferraro sense feel of about the the prospect? "I'm in awe," says Ferraro...
...considered only if Hart turned down the job. Says she: "My guess is that Gary Hart would add a lot more [to the ticket]. I'm only a surrogate." >Corinne C. ("Lindy") Boggs, 68. She came to office the old-fashioned way, by succeeding her late husband, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs. But she has stayed for six terms by carefully looking after her 45% black New Orleans district, and applying four decades of Washington know-how to a selected set of issues...
...Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, West Virginia...
Lotteries were used in post-Revolutionary America to help underwrite such eminent universities as Harvard, Yale, and William and Mary. But the privately run Louisiana Lottery, which flourished after the Civil War and depended on nationwide sales, was notoriously corrupt. To stop misuse, Congress in 1895 banned interstate commerce by lottery operators. Today lotteries still draw fire on moral grounds. Declares Jack Wyman, a lobbyist for the Christian Civic League of Maine: "Government financing by gambling encourages citizens to indulge their weaknesses...
...Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition-to give the $350 million extravaganza its formal name-is the worldliest of World's Fairs...