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Well aware that a dozen Ku Klux Klan members were watching in silent, white-sheeted protest some 20 yds. away, Carter drew rebel applause with a deft putdown. "These people in white sheets do not understand our region and what it's been through," he said. "They do not understand that the South and all of America must move forward." Noting that the Klan had burned a cross in the town the night before, Carter said softly: "The One who was crucified taught us to have faith, to hope, not to hate, but to love one another...
Time delights in the story behind the story. Maddened by a putdown from Joan Kennedy but under orders not to respond, "Rosalynn Cater's anger vibrated through the White House corridors" only to show up on the Time Inc. seismograph. And the talent for summation almost overwhelms. When voters told pollsters that they wouldn't support Jimmy Carter in November, "their mood was captured by Roy Brown, a food company executive in Fort Lee, N.J., who declared: 'We need a change. anything would be better than four more years of Jimmy Carter...
...times change. When he was starting up The New Yorker in 1925, Editor Harold Ross declared in his prospectus that his magazine would be much too sophisticated for "the old lady in Dubuque." If that instantly famous putdown ever had any accuracy, it surely does not now. Dubuque (pop. 65,000) has a lady mayor. And at 44, she is neither old nor unworldly-even though her honor, Carolyn Farrell, is a nun of the Sisters of Charity. Dean of continuing education at Dubuque's Clarke College, Farrell (she prefers not to be called "sister...
...opposition from the Mormon church [Dec. 17]? I know of no other lobbyists who are described as such, not even the military. It conjures in the mind a huge Amazon, flailing her arms about, mowing down Congressmen, state legislators, press people and presidential candidates. Could this be another putdown, like "the little woman...
That hoary male chauvinist putdown, "She throws like a girl," will never be applied to Crystal Fields, 11, an outfielder for the Phillies in the Cumberland, Md., Little League. In the annual Pitch, Hit and Run competition before the major league All-Star game in Seattle last week, Crystal became the first female to win a championship when she outpointed seven boys in the finals of the nine-to-twelve age group. One of two girls on her Little League team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base...