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...strange but somehow dramatically fitting that the Democrats had assembled in such an unregenerate place to nominate Jimmy Carter, from Plains, Ga., a Southern Baptist who in the '60s did missionary work in the Northern slums. At any rate, the contrast between the nimbus around the podium during Carter's acceptance speech and the derelict streets outside promised to be a memorable touch...
...invited vice-presidential prospects made their pilgrimages to Peanutville, U.S.A. In Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter held court. Edmund Muskie-elegant, imposing, a bit haughty but willing ("I suppose I have an appetite for almost anything in politics that is new and different"). Walter Mondale -witty, cool, eager, even though he had found that campaigning for the presidency meant he had to spend too much time in Holiday Inns ("I have checked, and they have been redecorated. That is where I would like to be"). John Glenn -a hero still, warm, attractive, a bit edgy (Aren't military...
...three Carter sons are wrapped up in the campaign. Each of them-and their wives-visited many states since early in 1975. JOHN (JACK), 29, a University of Georgia Law School graduate who lives in Calhoun, Ga., has yet to try any cases because he is too busy working for Dad. He sees it as his mission to convert all doubters...
Shaun Burke St. Simons Island, Ga...
...rest down home with just a few hundred intimate friends and reporters. Jimmy Carter invited more than 100 kinsmen, journalists and neighbors to a back-country fish fry at his mother's Scandinavian-modern house in the dark slash-pine woods near his peanut fields in sweltering Plains, Ga. The homey cookout was called partly to ease an ecological imbalance in the family pond. As often happens in politics and ponds, the larger fish were gobbling up the smaller fry, making the fishing hole unhealthy...