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While all this is part of Carter's world, he is a Southern farm boy at heart who still knows how to turn sweet-potato vines, chop cotton and pull peanuts, and who looks homeward to a hamlet so archetypically Southern that it is almost parody. Beyond that, he is a bucolic devotee of hunting and bird 'dogs, stock-car racing and rock music -notably backwoods Georgia's own Allman Brothers. Says he of Georgia rockers in general: "They're good boys. I understand them...
While lobbying through his reforms, the chief justice was also wielding his official and personal power to chop into a horrifying backlog of cases. He drafted 55 retired or underworked judges to dispose of hundreds of appeals cases that had languished for as long as five years. Result: the backlog is gone. Since 1973 the appellate docket has been "current," a rarity for state courts. By mixing public praise for jurists who cut their trial backlog with private tongue-lashings for those who did not, Heflin achieved a 16% drop in criminal trial delays in the face...
Among the most gratifying occasions Lane can recall is the time when he "squeezed Rothman's jaw just after he had had a tooth pulled," shortly after, he says, Rothman attempted to "chop down the walls of an elderly tenant who was unable to pay her rent...
...last week a note bearing the seal of Her Britannic Majesty's Government arrived at the U.S. State Department. It announced a unilateral British decision to chop the frequency of U.S. airline service between Chicago and Miami and London by one flight a week beginning this winter. The note was the most serious salvo to date in what promises to be a bitter, high-stakes U.S.-British commercial battle that may eventually involve every airline flying the rich North Atlantic route...
...performance conveyed this bubbling yet mildly pained mood; Paula Robison on flute, especially, gave linear definition by her subtle stress on the downbeat in sixteenth-note passages. The first violins tended to chop off an upbeat eight notes aftera similar stress on the downbeats (a not uncommon failing)--but the total balance was excellent, and had the drive of authentic Baroque spirit...