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...seeking a middle ground between the polarized views of 'Lock them all up' or 'Let them all go,'" says John A. Calhoun, Commissioner of the Division of Youth Services (DYS), a state-funded agency that is charged with detaining and referring delinquent youth both before and after they have been tried in court. Young and articulate, Calhoun has served as commissioner of DYS for the past 13 months. Within the state bureaucracy, he is strongly liked in some quarters, but disliked in others for his innovative and sometimes controversial views on juvenile delinquency...
Otherwise, the Carters seemed to be having fun. With the exception of Son Jack and his family, living in Calhoun, Ga., where he practices law, the entire clan is under the same roof after two years of constant separations because of the campaign. Excited at the newness of it all, Jimmy Carter rose every morning at 6:30, drank orange juice while he dressed, and was in the Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing...
Business Support. In 1951 Lance began working as a $90-a-month teller in the Calhoun First National Bank, married the granddaughter of the president, and took over the top job in 1963. Three years later Lance drummed up business support for the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of an ambitious political newcomer named Jimmy Carter. When Carter was elected Governor in 1970, he made Lance head of the state's highway department...
...Perkins is a man of many faces: he brings the tenacity of a Haystacks Calhoun, the confidence of a Superstar Billy Graham, the grace of a Bruno chest flex, and the diplomacy of a Chief Jay Strongbow war dance to the New England region of the World Wide Wrestling Federation in his managerial capacity therein...
...Southern States are an aggregate, in fact, of communities, not of individuals," said John C. Calhoun in 1838. The plantation communities that he was describing have long since disappeared. Yet the South is still an aggregate of communities, the cohesiveness now embodied in myriad small towns that form the backbone of the region. The South has more old towns with fewer than 7,500 residents than any other region in the nation. Both pilloried and praised by native writers, the small town remains the custodian of the Southern lifestyle. The home town's values, perceptions, even its personal style...