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International events have certainly produced their share of TIME covers in the past two years: 32, of which six have dealt at least in part with the fast-shifting fortunes of Iran. Associate Editor William Smith, who wrote last winter's cover on the Persian Gulfs "Crescent of Crisis," is responsible for the main narrative this week. As he did with most of the 40 cover stories he has handled in his nine years as a TIME writer, Smith assembled this one under a steady rain of TIME correspondents' files-from the tumultuous streets of Tehran, from...
Ayuh. You get some dark horse politician here this winter who'll not only stomp through our snow but also spend a week in one of our cold houses, and he won't be dark any more; he'll be blue. M. Cyrene Wells Epsom...
Sensing possible upsets in two traditionally Democratic states, the G.O.P. threw money and manpower into the Kentucky and Mississippi gubernatorial elections last week. To no avail. John Y. Brown Jr. won in Kentucky and William Winter in Mississippi; each pulled about 60% of the vote. The Republicans, however, scored a net gain of 28 seats in state legislatures across the nation...
Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...
...Republican opponent, Gil Carmichael, a wealthy automobile dealer, won 39% of the vote when he ran against former Senator James Eastland in 1972. In this election, Carmichael emphasized his experience as a businessman, and in a state where President Carter is not very popular, Carmichael described Winter as a "national Democrat, a Carter supporter, even a Kennedy man." Cutting coattails fast, Winter responded that Carter and Carmichael were both good examples of why businessmen should not be elected to office. Carmichael had earlier predicted the outcome: "If you've got two nice guys in the same race in Mississippi...