Word: mississippi
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HOSPITALIZED. John C. Stennis, 83, Mississippi Democratic Senator and dean of the upper house who eleven years ago survived a mugger's bullet; in satisfactory condition after the amputation of his left leg at the thigh because of an inoperable malignant tumor; at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...
Down the nation's East shore, down the Mississippi River, mornings in November are punctuated with the laughter-like calls of migratory fowl and the sharp reports of shotguns. While some people loathe the practice, hunters romance it, just as Hemingway did in that pretty passage. After all, even the argot of the sport is poetry: when a bird sets its wings to come in to feed, it is "whiffing," defined by Webster as moving "with or as if with a puff of air." The hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely...
...states were: Colorado, Georgia, lowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Okiahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...blacks and eight Hispanics on the House ballots, 27 of them incumbents. Although one black had been defeated in an Indiana primary, reducing their membership in the House to 20, blacks had hoped to lift the total back to 21 with a victory by Democrat Robert Clark, 55, in Mississippi. As in 1982, however, Clark lost to Webb Franklin, 42, a former circuit-court judge. This was despite a redistricting that placed blacks in the majority. The number of Hispanics in the House remained at eight...
...Republicans lost another incumbent just across the Mississippi River in Iowa. Like Percy, Roger Jepsen, 55, may have been hurt by rural economic problems; the farm-debt crisis is severe. But Jepsen, a conservative first-termer, had plenty of problems of his own doing. Last year he claimed congressional immunity to beat a Washington traffic ticket, and in June the born-again Christian was forced to confess that he had applied for membership in a Des Moines spa-cum-brothel in 1978. Nor was Jepsen always solid on matters of substance. In 1981, he trumpeted his opposition to the Administration...