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Tommy Thompson Stone Mountain, Ga...
...water off Sea Island, Ga., was so rough that the crew of a Coast Guard launch got seasick, but an ornery ocean was not going to spoil Jimmy Carter's vacation. He came back from a day at sea with his digestive system intact, a bonito of respectable size and the usual fisherman's lament: "You should have seen the one that got away. It was one of the largest cobias I've ever seen...
Then southward, first for a stop in antebellum Charleston, where Twain insists on renting an electric boat to tour the ricefield bogs; and Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...
Jimmy Carter celebrated his triumph by going home to Plains, Ga. He figured that he had made 2,050 speeches in the past 6½ months, "and I'm tired." At least 1,000 people came from miles around, danced in the streets of the small town, hummed and clapped with a spiritual group that sang from the train platform and waited to greet Jimmy as he arrived at 1:30 on the morning after the Super Bowl. Then he got up on the train platform and spoke under a three-quarter moon...
...partly to black separatism (black Baptists, of whom the most celebrated was Martin Luther King Jr., now total more than 11 million, organized in four major conventions). Of the many Southern Baptist churches that still have no black members, one is Jimmy Carter's home church in Plains, Ga. Though the Carter family itself supported the admission of black members, Plains Pastor Bruce Edwards says: "There is still segregation, but the rule is no longer enforced. There are no blacks who attend regularly, although there are some who attend occasionally...