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...Schaefer Music Festival offers excellent, inexpensive ($ 1.50-$3) outdoor entertainment. B.B. King, justly renowned for his blues-guitar virtuosity, will appear on July 12. Toots and the Maytals will raise the roof on the 16th with their joyously scruffy reggae music from Jamaica, followed on the 17th by the Earl Scruggs Revue, which purveys a pleasing blend of down-home country and easygoing rock...
...lifetime calling has been healing. She trained as a registered nurse, and even after she married James Earl Carter, a farmer-businessman, she continued as a kind of community physician -and not just for whites. She sat up through the night with sick black children as well. In an era of strict segregation, she would greet black friends at the front door or in her parlor, while her husband went out the back door to avoid witnessing such a breach of local mores...
...JAMES EARL III ("CHIP"), 26, is the best politician among the sons. "He is smart, has good instincts and works harder than the rest," says a Carter aide. He also introduced his father to Bob Dylan, who supplies some of the candidate's favorite lines. ("It [the world] looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.") Chip lives with his wife Caron in a $8,100 mobile home near the Plains railroad station. A member of the Plains city council, he plans to go into the family peanut business. Some...
...back to a precolonial Africa uninfluenced by European rulers. In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that the obeah, or medicine man, can ask if someone in the house was involved in the death. "Death is rarely considered natural," Actor James Earl Jones says as narrator of the film, "and certain people are divined to be responsible." If the coffin tilts toward a particular house during the ritual procession, the owner is considered guilty and must provide gifts to the survivors...
...Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...