Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the California court was ruling on the Egan case, Lawyer Shernoff was off in Mississippi instructing another jury in what he calls "the therapeutic concept of punitive damages." His client this tune was Wilfred Fayard, 58, a sheet metal worker, who had suffered a back injury while carrying a bathtub. Fayard lost his disability benefits because his injury was considered by his insurance company to be "nonconfining." That was because Fayard, on doctor's orders, managed to walk a few hundred yards every day for exercise. At the trial, a former claims adjuster for Fayard's insurers...
...Activists Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem are actually firing some shots across someone else's bow. The two rented a rowboat in New York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women U.S.A. and urged their sisters across the land...
...chronicler of life on the Mississippi might have had a premonition about Jimmy Carter's descent on the Father of Waters last week. From the averted faces and cold shoulders of the poll readers in Washington, the President escaped by steamboat to the smiles and welcomes of Middle America. His seven-day, 660-mile journey from St. Paul to St. Louis was a vacation both officially and in the sense that many politicians find campaigning a vacation from the cares of the office. Unmistakably, Carter was campaigning for reelection...
...course, not even in the middle of the Mississippi can a President entirely escape controversy. After he disclosed that he had approved the sale of 1.5 million bbl. of U.S. heating oil to Iran, he got into a shouting match at Quincy, Ill., with critics of the move. Carter said testily: "You want me to tell them not to ship us any more [crude] oil?" As for charges that the President was drifting far from the demands of his job, Press Secretary Jody Powell hotly retorted, "What he has been doing here is the single most important thing he could...
Carter unbent enough to join reporters, including TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, on the bow deck one evening for an unaccustomed hour of chitchat. He gave a peculiarly detailed recital of the horsepower ratings of tugboats passing through Lock 26 on the Mississippi. He also offered some personal glimpses. He reads literary potboilers, he said. When? "I read in the bathroom." He disclosed that when in Washington he keeps a diary: "It's amazing how detailed mine is." When a reporter recalled that Mark Twain had called Congress the only "distinctly native criminal class," Carter joked that the remark...