Word: mississippis
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...couple of the Southern states, and capture a pair or more of the heavyweights, such as California and Pennsylvania, to reach the magic 270. It will take some doing, but Ford claims to be encouraged by the results of private polls in 18 "battleground" states, which include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, where he thinks he stands a chance of winning. An assessment of the Ford-Carter standings...
...time Thursday rolled around, many of the conventiongoers were thoroughly worn out. "I'm so tired fightin'," said Mississippi Delegate Malcolm Mabry, "I just wish someone would ring the bell." Yet Gerald Ford managed to recharge the delegates...
...argue many conservatives, who agree with Billy Mounger, vice chairman of the Mississippi delegation. "If he goes out and builds up political lOUs," says Mounger, "he's going to be ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon...
Television also captured a few incidents that might not have taken place had it not been for its power. When Ford Campaign Chairman Rogers Morton said he was unable to reach the troubled Mississippi delegation by telephone, CBS's Dan Rather briskly escorted him across the floor. Morton was halfway there before he thought better of it and escaped. While the Mississippi delegation caucused in a CBS trailer, Mike Wallace was locked outside, but three young CBS pages inside-sons of Commentator Moyers, Correspondent Roger Mudd and Producer Perry Wolff-took in every word. They were deprived...
Concentrated Misery. Odysseys and exiles-melancholy rather than exuberant-are the motifs of this book. At the age of 17, Sevareid and a high school friend traveled the 2,200 miles from the Mississippi River to Hudson's Bay in a secondhand 18-ft. canoe to prove that two red-blooded American boys could connect the waters of the Gulf of Mex ico to the North Atlantic. As Sevareid remembered it 15 years later, the expedition was "sheer, concentrated misery." For years afterward, "a visit to the woods produced a moment of nausea...