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SARBANES' ROMP. A cool, low-keyed Rhodes scholar with an English wife, Congressman Paul Sarbanes appears to be riding to victory in a contentious Senate race in Maryland. Sarbanes, 43, a three-term Representative from a blue-collar district in Baltimore, leads in the latest Sunpapers poll by 17 percentage points over incumbent U.S. Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., 49, who has been hurt by his acknowledged acceptance of unreported campaign funds from the Nixon Administration in 1970. Sarbanes, who attended Princeton on scholarship, later Oxford University and Harvard Law School, comes from a Greek working-class background...
...unique problems involved in prosecuting a sitting public official began almost immediately after the Maryland Governor was indicted last November on charges involving bribery. The federal judge on the case was disqualified by an appeals court because a former law partner had a peripheral relationship to the case. Thereupon all eight other federal judges in Maryland also disqualified themselves. Finally, John H. Pratt, 65, had to be imported from Washington, D.C. Though virtually every Marylander knew about the charges, Pratt refused to move the trial to Virginia and began working his way through 240 jury candidates, mindful of the added...
...that were not enough, the tangles reached even to U.S. Attorney Jervis Finney, who is nominally in charge of the prosecution. When the Government started presenting its case last week, Republican Finney was making himself scarce, apparently because as a former Maryland state senator he might be called as a witness for Democrat Mandel's defense...
...year quest which included over half a million miles of travel across three continents to find the name of his first known African ancestor, "Kunte Kinte," and the exact location of his family village, Juffure, in West Africa, now Gambia; that ancestor had been kidnapped in 1767, shipped to Maryland, and sold to a Virginian planter. The first black American to trace his lineage back to Africa, Haley has compiled an authentic and detailed picture of African life in his historical novel Roots. Haley retraces the oral history passed down through his family and also affords black Americans an opportunity...
Southerners also enjoy a legacy of shared celebration. From the epicurean crab feasts of Maryland's Eastern Shore to a catfish fry in Tennessee, from Texan barbecue orgies to the days-long shrimp or gumbo feasts of Louisiana's Cajun country, Southerners are united in their love of a party-and its morning-after reconstruction. An old New Orleans saying: "The rabbit says, 'Drink everything, eat everything, but don't tell everything...