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...Clan Carter not only is bigger than the Ford family-besides Jimmy and Rosalynn, nine of its members are campaigning hard-but it is organized with the cold efficiency and zeal for battle that marks the campaign of the candidate himself. Rosalynn Carter is so effective that she roams the country on her own, a kind of political free safety (see box); but the tours of the rest of the Carter children, in-laws, and various relatives are coordinated by a special six-man staff working with the closely guarded "situation room" in Atlanta. Itineraries are geared to big events...
After today's tourney the linksmen hope to enter the ECAC in midseason form. But besides serving as a tune-up, the Crimson's participation in the Toski Invitational for the first time is meant to pay homage to the Toski clan of Bob, Jack, Tom and Ben, who have been a driving force behind golf in New England. Bob Toski, who is the game's foremost teacher and whom Donovan calls "the pro's pro," won the Greater Hartford Open when he was a regular on the pro tour in the 1950s...
Twenty percent of its population are black. The other 80% are an amalgam of mint-julep aristocrats out of Faulkner's Sartoris clan, Mexican Americans from Texas, Roman Catholic Cajuns in Louisiana, Cubans and Jews in Miami, Vietnamese resettled on the Gulf Coast and Anglo-Saxon Baptists everywhere...
Even greater than pride in place is a strongly developed sense of family-not merely the nuclear one, but the broadsword virtues of the clan. This is partly because many Southern families have lived in the same territory for five or six generations, growing, spreading, developing deeper ties. To a largely rootless and mobile nation, children or grandchildren of the immigrant experience, this familial feeling seems foreign. Explains Spalding: "It is comforting for a Southerner, in a strange, hostile and wicked world, to know who he is, that someone will send his daughter a wedding present or come...
...road legacy manifests itself after work on Friday when cars begin moving through the dusk toward Concord. Built in 1945, the half-mile dirt track has few amenities. Lighting is dim, spectators sit on concrete ledges. Yet Concord is a shrine. Junior Johnson, Tiny Lund and the illustrious Petty clan (Richard Petty, king of the stockers, won $378,865 last year) began their racing careers here. Spectators expect the local boy they applaud to become tomorrow's NASCAR hero. Says Cabarrus County Sheriffs Deputy Stowe Cobb: "We're all participants because those boys out there...