Word: missouri
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PERHAPS A NEW MYTHOLOGY is in the breeding around and about the Midwest, a kind of metaphorical setting that catches America and chokes up a seed which somehow holds a whole country. They say that there is a place in Missouri somewhere, where you can stand looking west and know that there is nothing but solid unbroken wheat for a thousand miles. These fields are sparsely but evenly inhabited, just as they are among the corn to the north. Richard Nixon was one of the first to point out something special about the people here--that they are silent. Other...
...rank of international master. Through his magazine, some 40 books and his New York Times column, he became one of the most widely read chess authorities. -Died. Sidney W. Souers, 80, director of the forerunner to the present Central Intelligence Agency; in St. Louis. A highly successful Missouri businessman and World War II Naval Intelligence expert, Souers was chosen by his old friend Harry Truman in 1946 to oversee creation of the Central Intelligence Group, the first peacetime espionage operation in U.S. history. The agency evolved into the CIA the following year, and Souers moved on to the White House...
...Missouri Democrat, who had been scheduled to speak at a Harvard Law School Forum here, was 15 miles away behind a podium at Wellesley College...
Turning to the Judicial Branch for help, more than 20 Senators, including such fiscal conservatives as Mississippi's James Eastland and John Stennis, signed a brief asking a federal court to force Nixon to spend impounded high way trust funds, as demanded by the state of Missouri. North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, the Senate's leading constitutional expert, declared that the Constitution gives "the power of the purse exclusively to Congress," and that presidential impounding of funds is "contemptuous" of both the Congress and the Constitution...
...said Mr. Hannegan. 'He is the contrariest Missouri mule I have ever dealt with...