Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegations to watch included Mississippi, whose members were expected to arrive in Kansas City still intent on giving all of its 30 votes to one candidate under a unit rule; but if some members did break ranks, Reagan would still need a big chunk of the delegation to keep his chances alive. On the other side, any Ford slippage in the big Northeast delegations-New York (154), Pennsylvania (103) and New Jersey (67)-would provide tip-offs that the President's shaky delegate edge might not hold. The votes of uncommitted delegates in Illinois, West Virginia and Wyoming would...
...awesome loneliness of the presidency," a time-honored cliche of the White House press corps, has fallen into disuse because it ill-suits Ford's style and personality. Several weeks ago, after a delegate-wooing expedition to Mississippi, he headed back to Washington on Air Force One. His private lounge exuded more homey comfort than overwhelming power. Ford was in his shirtsleeves, filling and fiddling with his pipe. His olive was high and dry on the ice cubes at the bottom of his martini glass. The bulkheads were decorated with an array of David Kennerly's color photos...
...wing bridge adjoining the pilot house and ordered the long pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked out in red, white and blue bunting, the Mississippi Queen pulled slowly away from Cincinnati's Public Landing. The maiden voyage of the first overnight steamboat built in 50 years was officially under...
Once they were the undisputed mistresses of the world's greatest commercial waterway. They still evoke memories of a long-departed era that Mark Twain -whose very nom de plume is derived from navigation terminology of the day -described in Life on the Mississippi. Today the great paddle-wheeling river steamboat is a species almost as endangered as the whooping crane-and likewise protected by the Government. The last wooden-decked steamboat, the 50-year-old Delta Queen, plies the 1,500 miles of river from Cincinnati to New Orleans under a special congressional exemption from the federal safety...
Longer than a football field, 77 ft. high with her twin stacks raised, the Mississippi Queen is a world apart from the wooden tinderboxes that traveled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the 19th century. By the time she left the shipyard in Jeffersonville, Ind., last month, the Queen had cost $23.5 million. She has seven decks, with 218 staterooms tastefully appointed in muted grays and browns. There is a swimming pool, a sauna, a movie theater, a two-deck dining room and a grand salon. Originally the Queen was intended to be a much closer copy of her predecessors...