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First, the good signs. Even before the returns filtered in from Democratic delegate caucuses in Iowa and Oklahoma, which launched Carter into contender status, reporters were heading toward Atlanta to begin checking into the former Georgia governor's record and the veracity of his campaign rhetoric. Ex-Georgia legislator Julian Bond, a black, had hinted in speeches in New England before Christmas that he, for one, was not in the Carter camp, and didn't esteem Carter as the paradigm of a civil rights candidate. (Carter's press releases had claimed Bond and all other Georgia civil rights leaders were...
...always had a short attention span," ventured Martin Jacobs of the Lipman Wolfe & Co. department-store chain in Oregon. "They see a recession, are told to conserve, and do. But then, when things don't improve all that much, they go back to their old buying habits." Julian Seeherman, a senior vice president of Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn thinks that with the economy slowly recovering, "people are less concerned about security and are willing to spend for what they think is right...
...people, oddities. The less intrinsically dignified the relic, the truer this seems to be. One cannot re-experience the feelings with which a devout Roman borghese of the 17th century might have knelt before the reliquary of Mary Magdalene's foot in the church of Sts. Celsus and Julian. To him it would have been an object dense in its reality and hallowed in association: one of the actual feet that propelled the repentant whore of Judea to her meeting with the Saviour, a direct link across a vaguely understood gulf of time to a crucial mythic event...
...Carter press secretary Jody Powell says "only Jimmy, with his strong civil rights record and direct experience with busing's shortcomings, can give leadership in"--Carter shows some signs of slippage. On the one hand, leading Georgia civil rights figures who have backed Carter in the past, such as Julian Bond and Maynard Jackson, have shown maverick impulses--Bond attacked Carter's hiring record in a speech in Boston last month (causing Mark Zweicher, a Business School student and Carter aide, to grumble in the back of the bus, "Julian's looking for some limelight, and we think...
Died. Lieut. General Julian Constable Smith, 90, durable Marine commander; in Arlington, Va. Smith fought his country's battles from the occupation of Veracruz in 1914 through World War II. He led the corps' 2nd Division in the bloody conquest of Tarawa in 1943 against suicidal Japanese resistance, coming ashore under fire at the height of the fighting because "it was my job to be on the beach. The men of my division had been through hell and they were entitled to the presence of their commanding officer...