Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relaxed Southern style of Carter's closest aides needed a strong dose of discipline and management. These were talents Wexler had demonstrated amply at the Commerce Department, where she had been a deputy under secretary, and in two decades as a political organizer. She worked up from local to statewide campaigns in her home state of Connecticut, and then earned a reputation as a skilled operator at the 1968 and 1972 Democratic National Conventions...
...gracelessness, both souvenir shops. The rival tour wagons jostle Winnebagos, in flight from the snows of Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois and hovering here at the dozen chances to buy a now amplified selection of interchangeable junk mementos - the grinning peanut in still more awful avatars, Billy T shirts, yardsticks, local cookbooks (revealing how deeply the taste-destroying shortcut has driven in its charge south). Carter family members who have stayed on move more carefully now, cautious of the speed with which packs of strangers can gather at a glimpse...
...only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have more cashmere sweaters"). No, the deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what...
...road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening in a house on the edge of town with friends and kin joining other local boys (Mac Lee and "Amos" Austin) in songs new and old to first-class guitar: mainly A Satisfied Mind...
...government and organized labor. The stakes are high. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey warned last week that if the 15%-and-higher settlements sought by the unions are enacted, inflation will soar to double-digit rates. Moreover, unless taxes were raised to cover the higher wages, 100,000 local government workers, union members all, would have to be laid off. The Prime Minister could provoke a rebellion in his own Cabinet if he tries to balance the inflationary impact of high union settlements by slashing government spending, as he threatened to do last week. "There do come times when...