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DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...
Egyptian and Israeli delegates apparently got on well with each other, both in the Blair House talks and during informal meetings at the Madison Hotel, their common residence. But as the week passed, the Israelis became somewhat irritated that the U.S. was not being more evenhanded, especially while the Blair House talks were going on. Thus, Dayan's semipublic comments about trouble brewing were partly intended to warn the Carter Administration not to go too far in siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least...
...Liberty is to faction what air is to fire." When he wrote those words, James Madison clearly expected the faction-ridden nation he helped found to go right on producing special-interest groups constantly pressing for advantage. But even the prescient co-author of the Federalist papers might be amazed at the abundant fulfillment of his vision by Americans of the late 1970s. The nation has entered a period of ascendant factionalism, a time when the larger desires of society can scarcely be heard for the insistent clamor of its numberless segments...
...FIRST WEEK of September, Mims asked the court for a change of venue because of substantial publicity in both Morgan County and Huntsville's Madison County. The judge agreed, but he chose Cullman County as "the nearest adjacent county without prejudice." Less than 1% of the total voting population is black in Cullman County. Because of hiring practices, the small city of Cullman has historically kept blacks out. This, then, would be the "unprejudiced" site of Tommy Lee Hines' trial...
Still pronouncing himself unconvinced, the skeptic is invited by Spokesman Kaufmann, an irrepressible, retired Madison Avenue public relations man, to try his own luck with the dowsing rods in the backyard of Injunjoe's cabin colony. It is already late in the evening. A full moon is casting an eerie light on the scene. The skeptic moves forward, tightly gripping the twin rods and saying, "I am seeking water. I am seeking water." Suddenly the rods swing apart. Have the rods found water? Or did they simply slip apart from the motion of the skeptic's stride? Kaufmann...