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Hollowing Heartland. As the unemployed trekked to coastal, service-based cities like San Francisco and Boston, the nation's midsection began to empty. "There's been a general hollowing out of the interior of the country all the way from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast over to Pascagoula, Miss.," says Calvin Beale, a demographer with the Department of Agriculture...
...sludge, courtesy of the citizens of Baltimore, set out on its vagabondage from Maryland nine weeks ago, and has been plying the rails ever since. After Louisiana declined the tribute, the so-called Poo-Poo Choo-choo chugged into a rail yard near Pascagoula, Miss. But Mississippi's department of environmental quality threatened a fine of $2 million a day, so the train operator gave up, and at week's end was preparing to follow the scent back to Maryland...
Goodgame, 34, confesses to being not so patient a waiter as Duffy, but he's learning. A native of Pascagoula, Miss., Goodgame studied at the University of Mississippi and at Oxford. After stints at the Tampa Tribune and Miami Herald, he joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1984, where he covered everything from immigration to movie stars. "My editors, in their wisdom, saw some natural progression from profiling Bill Cosby to covering the President," he says...
...yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight Bush's speech at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Teeley urges Bush to add a new note card for his speech. Bush agrees and Teeley drafts four new sentences, based on Lehman's unchecked assertion...
...Pascagoula, Miss. With Lehman at his side during a visit to the Ingalls shipyard, Bush waves stiffly from a platform in front of a new amphibious assault ship, the U.S.S. Wasp. To a crowd of men in hard hats, Bush vigorously advocates a strong military and then launches his hastily scripted attack on Michael Dukakis. For the first time all day, the national press takes notice; Bush must be so confident that he is looking ahead to the general election. Bush's understated comparison of himself with Dole and Robertson (he again mentions "stability") gets lost in the static...