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...native parts, Bell is esteemed as a good lawyer and an even better organizer with a quiet, can-do style. Born in Americus, Ga., a mere ten miles from Plains, Bell is a Baptist, like his new boss. Also like Carter, he isa country boy who made good. After attending Georgia Southwestern College and Mercer University Law School, he eventually joined a prestigious Atlanta firm. In 1960, he served as co-chairman of John Kennedy's Georgia campaign. After the election, he was appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
...biggest issue in the contest was the future of the tiny town (pop. 683). Celebrity has already taken its toll: up to 2,000 tourists pour in daily, overtaxing the toilets, parking illegally in hopes of getting a ticket to save as a souvenir, tearing pages out of the Baptist church's hymnals on Sundays. Claiming that Blanton's air-controller work in Albany, 40 miles away, prevented him from executing his mayoral duties fully, Billy said he ran "because I didn't want to see Plains go right straight to hell...
...zoning board in a three to two split, voted on November 18 to evict the group from the Old Cambridge Baptist Church because theaters are prohibited in the residential zone where the church is located, Jack Drummey, an official in the Cambridge public relations office, said yesterday...
Michael Novak, a graduate student in history, is used to hearing kind words about his latest article or his recently published insights into Catholicism. But Novak says he does not write articles and his studies of Baptist history leave him little time to think about the Roman Church. Novak shares the name of a prominent Catholic theologian and journalist who recently studied at Harvard...