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Susan Ford, 19, does not like-or excel in-public speaking, and can be pouty about campaigning, but she is fond of parades. So, smiling like a homecoming queen, Susan is dispatched to march down Main Streets at the first roll of a drum. Mike Ford, 26, married and a divinity student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., last week announced that he had decided to get involved in the campaign because it was his Christian duty to do so. Opening the Ford headquarters in Augusta, Me., Mike graciously dismissed the criticism of Carter's lust...
...possibility of general paralysis, with very deleterious effects, especially economic." Hofheinz believes polarization along the radical-moderate lines could occur only outside the leadership that the foreign press is so fascinated with. "There is an outside possibility," he says, that "someone will call for and try to drum up support in external circles--that is, outside of the few dozen people who govern China...
...pinch--a few concerts, local starving artists in the street, you know. The cult guys are still around, sure. But they're all into it now, too. It's got the makings of an international conspiracy. It's the lowest musical common denominator since the bongo drum; Sonny and Cher, Hall and Oates, Stiller and Meara, Leopold and Loeb, local starving artists in the street, they're all into it. Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums of it. Disco. May the Good Lord take me, take us all, to the great Disco in the sky. The dam has burst...
...successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
...both black and white. The result: Stars Fell on Alabama, a vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to "York State," as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna and the Hudson rivers, which he fought to defend against pollution...