Word: mississippis
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Wallace moved into Massachusetts with one solid success under his belt. Though his support was supposed to have eroded in the Deep South, there was no sign of it in the Mississippi caucuses at the end of January. Wallace won 45% of the precinct vote and will probably pick up much of the 27% uncommitted bloc. His nearest rival was former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who received only 14%-less than expected by his backers. Sargent Shriver, who is remembered for the programs he initiated as director of the poverty program, cut into Carter's constituency, winning an estimated...
Hired Guns. Helping to get out the vote in Mississippi was a new kind of Wallace operative. Steve St. Amand, 25, worked in Edmund Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign, but he had no qualms about switching to Wallace because he wants the political experience. While he labored in Mississippi, 17 other "hired guns," all under 30 and earning $12,000 a year, were organizing elsewhere for Wallace. The candidate could not care less whether they agree with him. Says Wallace's director of communications, Joe Azbell: "What we want from these young people is expertise and hard work...
...favorite candidate in the seven Southeastern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee)? No, it is not George Wallace. It is Ronald Reagan...
...harder," observes Cessna's Meyer. Keokuk, however, is precisely the kind of place where many executives need to go, as corporations decentralize operations. J. Lynn Helms, president of Piper, based in Lock Haven, Pa., tells of executives of an Ohio company who had to visit a plant in Mississippi several times a week. Their door-to-door travel time was reduced from eleven hours to 3½ hours after the company began flying them direct in its own Piper...
...Truffaut's films, it is the most beautiful. In Adele, Truffaut has found a heroine who perfectly embodies and reflects his own intense romanticism. And in the course of her torturous love affair, Truffaut can further chart-as he did in Jules and Jim and The Mississippi Mermaid-the shattering refractions of an obsession. Yet there is something lacking-perspective, for one thing; also, curiously, passion...