Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, where he donned red coveralls and a white hard hat with "President Jimmy Carter" painted on in green-and pronounced himself...
Yazoo City, Miss.; pop. 11,732; 40 miles northwest of Jackson; site of a Confederate navy yard burned down but never captured by Union troops. Principal industries: cottonseed oil, lumber, fertilizer and clothing...
...revolving door with the crazed blonde and her duffle bag, and who just happens to have made a fortune in the perfume industry, dropped out of civilization, and live on a tiny deserted island. Add a wealthy New York wife who keeps track of her husband via a Miss Mark--a photo-snapping snoop in tourist a clothing. Mix in the usual Venezuelan traffic jams and customs officials. Spice it up with a few out-of-the-ordinary difficulties--such as transporting a red gas stove across an ocean on a tiny boat--and the recipe sounds complete...
...idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, N.J.? A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif...
...that backstage role wholly satisfying. Bitsy Pryor, the efficient wife of a Democratic Senator, is appalled at the prospect that he may run for President in 1976; it would kill her budding career as a radio and TV advocate of women's rights. After 40 years in Washington, Miss Emily, wife of a retiring Senate chairman, is terrified at having to return to a home she no longer knows. Reporter Tiana Briggs, who turned her society column into solid news, aches for the son she lost in a broken marriage and laments the destructiveness of reporters in post-Watergate...