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Whitlock, formerly assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, is a member of the Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health Board. In the mid 1960's, he was vice president of the Cambridge Mental Health Association...
...work of a Plains businessman did not occupy all his energies. Carter launched a warehousemen's association, ran for the school board, later the local hospital board. He joined civic groups, became a deacon of the Plains Baptist Church and finally wandered onto the political stump. His first whiff of electioneering was Georgia politics at its gamiest. During his election for state senator, the newcomer found some irregularities in one of the ballot boxes; an investigation and recount showed that Carter had been beaten by voters who were dead, jailed or never at the polls on Election Day. The election...
...started preparations for the 1970 race immediately after that defeat. He took to poring over old Georgia budgets, and at the other extreme, stretching his mind on the likes of Reinhold Niebuhr and Dylan Thomas. Carter crisscrossed the state scores of times, delivering 1,800 speeches to small-town civic groups, schools and agriculture associations...
Economic expediency has also eased Georgia's social reckoning, particularly in Atlanta. While other major Southern cities were witnessing the spectacle of defiance, in Atlanta a coalition of black and white businessmen, politicians, editors and civic leaders gathered behind then-Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. to shape a different image for the capital: "The city too busy to hate." Dr. Vivian Henderson, president of Clark College, feels not too much should be made of Atlanta's motives: "Self-enlightenment is not the takeoff point. The most potent factor has been the national policies that forced the South to change its ways...
...towns bordering the Charles as far as Dedham, 34 miles from Boston harbor, are supplying trucks, and civic-minded businessmen have donated 50,000 plastic bags. Red Cross disaster units and local police teams will be patrolling the river banks with walkie-talkies and the Waltham Junior College canoeing club will be on hand for rescue missions...