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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike their metropolitan cousins, though, few of these mayors are career politicians. Ted Crozier, a bald, burly ex-Army colonel, retired to his wife's home town of Clarksville, Tenn., and found public affairs more interesting than the restaurant into which he had sunk some of his service savings. Gesturing with his cigarette holder, he says: "I'm trying to prove you can turn things around." Charlotte Baldwin, the slim, red-haired wife of a dentist from Madisonville...
...from it inspired. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and one of Carter's earliest labor supporters in 1976, returned grumbling that unionists might consider voting for a Republican in 1980. But the reaction of Connecticut Governor Grasso was more typical: she found Carter "upbeat and confident, just terribly impressive." At the minimum, most of the summit visitors were persuaded to give Carter the benefit of the doubt for a few days, as he struggled to devise a program and a way to sell...
...Baltimore sending warm greetings via Earl Weaver, and hoards of Bostonians laughing at the slumping Yankees, it seemed all too fitting that my summer ended up being limited to New England weather, jogging along the Charles, and work. But after hours of boredom and months of humiliation. I finally found an activity even more exciting than yelling "LOUU, LOUUU, LOUUU" at Yankee Stadium. Why not become a Fenway junkie and root against...
...DIFFERENT. Mariner 10 went to Mercury and found a heavily cratered, dessicated world; and to Venus, sending thousands of views of the carbon dioxide clouds that shroud the planet. Mars, thought by some to be as "boring" as the moon, turns out to be a world with as many oddities and mysteries--with the probable exception of life--as earth. (Where else can you jump off a four-mile cliff or find a volcano that would stretch from Harvard Yard to Toronto?) The planet, as Viking I showed us, looks like a nice place to go for a walk...
...police are also trying to locate a Mexican student who had found and aided Jackson after the assault, hoping he might help them to find the attackers...