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...program presented readings describing King's life, including comments from his wife, Coretta Scott King, and Benjamin E. Mays, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., King's alma mater. The presentation also included a recording of King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech...
Meanwhile, Cousin Hugh Carter, 57, says that his worm-farm business in Plains, Ga., is booming. Sales of the little wrigglers, used by the bucketful as fishing bait, went up 25% after Cousin Jimmy reached the White House, bringing in gross revenues...
...Texas originated in the Caribbean in the fall of 1976 and spread from there to the United States. A spokes woman for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., said yesterday the disease is a variant of the A Victoria virus, the most common strain of the flu in America in the past several years...
...because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because he did not put up protectionist walls against imports, and wanted him to endorse a larger increase in the minimum wage. Many women were antagonized by his opposition to federally paid abortions for the poor. Blacks and big-city mayors were upset that...
...local levels. The number of female state legislators has virtually doubled since 1971, to 685. There are 90 women mayors of American cities that have populations of more than 10,000. Nearly half-six of 13 members-of the Minneapolis city council is now female. In tiny Flemington, Ga., every municipal office is held by a woman. Says Betty Friedan: "Women have gained enormously over the last 15 years. We have broken through the barriers, and it is more than just tokenism...