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Claude Y. Paquin Marietta, Ga...
When I first visited Plains, Ga., in December 1976, a month after Jimmy Carter's election, the town was buoyed up by various brands of delight-a native son's handmade personal triumph, the daily spectacle of famous TV news faces bolting along the quarter-mile street between Jimmy's house and the heart of downtown, the onset of Christmas...
...drive out from the Albany, Ga., airport in a rented car, 40 miles north toward Plains, the first clear fact is that the country hasn't changed-not the physical country, not hereabouts. The meticulously tended pecan groves stand on in the clean light; the well-grazed cows are still marching barnward in neatly spaced lines as if in rehearsal for their next state fair. The two crossroad towns, Leesburg and Smithville, show a little new paint on the old stores. But otherwise the stretch looks much as it must have all Jimmy Carter's life-no billboards...
...slept three to a room and there were feet everywhere," says South Carolina Tailback George Washington Rogers, 22, of his impoverished childhood in rural Duluth, Ga. For the past four football seasons, Rogers' fleet feet have been everywhere. He led the nation in rushing with 1,781 yds., sufficient mileage to earn him the 46th annual Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player. With the bulk (225 lbs.) of a fullback, the 6-ft. 2-in. Rogers ran for 4,958 yds. during his South Carolina career to become the fourth alltime college rusher...
...INDIVIDUAL GOALTENDING No. Name GP Mins. Sav. GA Pct. Avg. 27 Wade Lau 3 180 78 16 .830 5.33 HARVARD Tot. 3 180 78 16 .830 5.33 Opponents...