Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOUTH is in economic overdrive, powered by new residents and industries. South Carolina textile mills have added 3,100 workers this year and increased the average work week to 41.8 hours. Mississippi, though still the only state with per capita income below $3,000, is increasing total personal income by more than 11% per year. The tourist and construction surge in Florida, sparked largely by the Walt Disney World amusement park, has sent an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to the Disney movie Mary Poppins to find a suitable description: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
Nixon has proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...distinguished himself in his field as one of the top names in jock literature. His book entitled Physical. Intellectual, and Architectural Balance in the Locker Room has given him the acclaim he deserves and leaves him only second to Yovicsin as the top physical fitness authority east of the Mississippi. As a healer of the sick. Gamble's unbridled energy may unfortunately prove his downfall. He has prescribed so many faulty home remedies to injured players that they are starting to lose faith in his power. In fact, as quarterback Tom Pinto said last week, "We've got so many...
...Mississippi Senator John Stennis' profile represents one of the Nader report's major lapses. It points out that Stennis has a reputation as a modest pork barreler, and that despite his role as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mississippi has only four military installations and three defense contractors. Nevertheless, the report suggests darkly that Stennis "may be taking the pork back to his economically beleaguered state." Although the report writer eloquently describes the poverty in which many Mississippians live, he seems to resent the fact that HEW and the Department of Agriculture respectively pumped...
Some governments have exploited federal grants for social services. These services, which include vocational rehabilitation and child care, are critically needed in big cities. Yet smaller states and municipalities have found that the loosely supervised grants are a rich source of cash. In Mississippi, to take an egregious case, the state budget for social services was inflated from less than $2 million last year to a planned $460 million for the current fiscal year. Three-quarters of this would have come from Washington-except that Congress is now moving to curtail abuses by limiting such grants to the amount...