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...womb-like safety and promised material rewards of professional school. Gerald Ford has only nudged our national self-image up a small notch from the Nixonesque nadir; today we are encouraged to be the kind of team player for mediocrity that offers a warm tribute to Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz after his unconscionable remarks about blacks...
...SOUTH. Carter has blunted Ford's attempted foray into the region and increased his own leads since the second debate, in part because of the President's mistake on Eastern Europe and the Earl Butz controversy. The Georgian runs ahead in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. Mississippi and Texas lean toward Carter, and a Republican poll now has Carter leading in the Lone Star State 51% to 45%. The contest is neck and neck in Louisiana, but Carter may break out ahead because Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards is putting his organization behind...
...gaffe on Eastern Europe cost him needed votes. Commented Tony Gonzales, a student from El Paso: "Even my little brother knows Russia dominates these countries." Teacher's Aide Barbara Washington of Los Angeles, a Carter supporter, faulted the President for indecisiveness: "He should have taken quick action with Earl Butz...
...Minnesota Fritz"-is in constant communication with Carter's "Peanut One." Even so, Mondale, as he emphasized in the debate, is free to differ with Carter on key issues. A case in point occurred in September when the Georgian criticized the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren for going "too far" in protecting the accused-an attempt by Carter to woo Middle America. Mondale, a former attorney general of Minnesota, promptly praised the Warren Court for guarding the "constitutional rights of defendants...
Other humorists are less nostalgic -and more bountiful. They have found small seams of giddy gold in Carter's racy Playboy interview, Earl Butz's scurrilous remark, Ford's East European gaffe. If such breakthroughs continue, the contest might yet get something risible visible. "Voter apathy may be peaking too early," deadpans Columnist Bill Vaughan of the Kansas City Star. Adds Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep: "I had to scrounge around for topics, but then in the last few weeks the goofs have been so numerous that my cartoons now come naturally." Among them: a Soviet soldier...