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...that he is a real challenger, Carter is being asked to pass sterner tests than other candidates. He has been accused of fudging the issues. He has been charged with telling little white lies?and indeed he has occasionally exaggerated past accomplishments???along with some big ones. But he seems mostly to be faulted for advancing himself at the expense of others. George Wallace complains that Carter promised to support him for President in 1972 and then reneged. (Carter replies that his own letter of refusal to Wallace rests in the Georgia archives.) George McGovern is resentful because Carter joined...
...consuming passion. Disdaining all other activities (exercise seems a particular waste of time to him), Woodward has been the architect of some of the most complex biological molecules ever built by man. He synthesized quinine by the time he was 26, kept lengthening the list of his accomplishments???cortisone, strychnine, reserpine. cholesterol?until this year he manufactured the most complicated substance of all: chlorophyll. Says an admiring colleague: "It's not his chemical synthesis but his intellectual synthesis that is so striking...