Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America tailback at the University of Tennessee in 1956, Majors served as an assistant at Tennessee, Mississippi State and Arkansas. In 1968 he took over as head coach at Iowa State, where football fortunes were even bleaker than at Pitt. Four seasons later Iowa State had an 8-3 record and went to its first post-season bowl game...
Nestled among the cotton and soybean fields of Mississippi's table-flat Bolivar County, the tiny (pop. 2,100) all black city of Mound Bayou has few stores, little in the way of employment, and even less for the diversion of its residents. But Mound Bayou does have one civic asset: the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center Inc., a black-run medical complex that provides the people of Bolivar and neighboring counties with first-rate health care regardless of their ability to pay. Mound Bayou may not have its prized institution much longer. The federal aid necessary...
...there is a new threat. Paradoxically, it involves chlorination, the process that most U.S. towns and cities use to kill the disease-carrying bacteria in ordinary drinking water. When water from a polluted source, like Lake Erie or the Mississippi River, enters a treatment plant, the chlorine apparently interacts with industrial and agricultural wastes to produce chemical compounds that have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals...
...found in later tests that New Orleans' drinking water, which comes from the Mississippi River, contained minute traces of 66 organic chemicals, some of them known carcinogens. (In New Orleans last week, there was a rush on bottled water, and city officials announced that they would investigate the water supply further.) Actually, the link between chlorination and the formation of these chemicals was confirmed abroad. J.J. Rook, a Dutch scientist, added chlorine to contaminated river water and to relatively pure lake water. The concentration of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform rose sharply in the polluted water...
...scientists and lawyers, was approaching the problem from a different angle. A research team compared statistics on the mortality rate of cancers of the urinary organs and gastrointestinal tract in 64 Louisiana parishes (counties). The study showed a "significant relationship" between the use of drinking water from the Mississippi and cancer deaths. The report also noted that dangerous chemicals had been identified in municipal drinking-water supplies in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska and Washington...