Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this is Magnuson's 65th cover story for TIME, another record for the week. For Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the accompanying box on how the Big Freeze fits into the long-term weather...
...United States. The system of tax incentives and cheap labor that has attracted investors up to now would have to go; there are no grounds for supposing the economy would improve, except through some massive welfare program. Per capita income in Puerto Rico is about $2300, while in Mississippi, the poorest state, it is over $4000. Though every state contains pockets of misery that are worse off, no single administrative unit is so depressed. The island's geographic isolation would make any renewed private investment unlikely...
While Bell's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee could be lively, the committee is chaired by Mississippi's archconservative James O. Eastland, who urged Carter to appoint Bell. At week's end, moreover, some black organizations that had loudly opposed Bell appeared ready to recon sider in view of his pro-civil rights decisions. Certain Carter watchers, meanwhile, forecast that the President-elect will name some well-known civil rights activists to important jobs at Justice just to speed up the cooling-off process...
After the war, he enrolled at Mississippi's Millsaps College and was almost bounced when officials discovered he was an eighth-grade dropout. He later went on to earn a master's from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley...
Except for a year in Finland on a Fulbright grant and a semester at Harvard, he has taught only in the South (Mississippi, L.S.U., Kentucky and now Texas). Among his few avocations is playing Frisbee with his wife of 30 years. Pat, and their five children...