Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gutted of charm. It becomes a sort of attenuated general-store yarn about a bunko artist named Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) and a nine-year-old girl, Addie (played by O'Neal's daughter Tatum), who team up to fleece the citizens of Kansas and Missouri. The relationship between the older man and the girl, who may or may not be father and daughter, is grudgingly respectful and guardedly affectionate. They start off trying to fox and swindle each other, and the girl actually runs an elaborate scheme to get Moses out of the clutches...
...flood wall was holding at week's end. Built in 1955 at a cost of $80 million, the wall has already saved the city $340 million in flood damages this year. But 6 ft. of water sloshed through Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo. Thirty thousand acres of Missouri farm land went un der water when an extensive system of dikes gave...
Federally controlled levees along the Mississippi generally withstood the soaking, but a few were overtopped by high water. Along tributaries like the Missouri, St. Francis and Yazoo rivers, locally and privately financed levees and dikes were in many cases even less able to resist the increased pressure. President Nixon surveyed the flood regions from aboard The Spirit of '76 at the end of the week and pledged "full federal support for their recovery and rebuilding efforts." Even the eldest Mississippians could not remember such biblical rainfalls (57 in. since last October). Said one: "Everything that could be flooded...
...that would be transmitted on Government-financed interconnection facilities. In protest, the heads of many of the 233 local stations gathered in Washington last month to fight what seemed like an attempt at Government censorship. Several members of the CPB, including Chairman Thomas Curtis, a former Republican Congressman from Missouri, finally agreed to an elaborate compromise that would have allowed the CPB control over all Government-funded programs but would have given it only partial control over other programs...
...showdown between Theological Hard-Liner Jacob A.O. Preus, president of the 2,900,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and more liberal Lutherans in the denomination has long been expected to occur at the national synod convention in New Orleans this July. Since he was elected president in 1969, Preus has been fighting the "historical-critical" approach to the Bible that casts doubt, he says, on the literal accuracy of such biblical tales as Adam and Eve and Jonah and the Whale. Less literal Lutherans have hoped to defeat Preus by nominating a popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann...