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...Carter delegates and alternates whose votes gave him the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, nor was there a specific mailing to the electors who formally put him in office. The Democratic National Committee was disgruntled at having only 500 tickets to distribute. John Fishwick, president of the Norfolk and Western Railway, had graciously agreed to serve as host for one of the six postInaugural parties. He was astonished when he failed to get an invitation to the swearing-in, parade or receptions...
...making heroes out of deserters. " So says Lieut. Commander Michael Christian, a Norfolk-based former Viet Nam prisoner of war, who vows that he is ready to resign from the Navy in protest. "The price of honor seems pretty cheap this year." Air Force Colonel George Day, another former Viet Nam P.O. W. now stationed in Florida, is ready to pack up his war medals, including the Medal of Honor, and ship them all back to Washington...
There are plenty of juicy parts in Bolt's play, and Manulis's cast manages to carry most of them off with a fair degree of competence. Michael Kriesman as the Duke of Norfolk, More's friend, aptly embodies the gusty energy of Tudor aristocracy, while Jon Goerner seems made for the role of the slimy Spanish ambassador Signor Chapuys. Gene Sykes also turns in a clever performance as The Common Man, whose life, with its daily compromises and bartering of self, Bolt considers the analogue...
...same time, Carter has demonstrated many strengths to the panelists. Among them is the fact that he is a new face and his election would mean a change in Government. Said Gerald Levy, a college professor from Norfolk, Va.: "He's the sort of person who could run the Congress. He's not a party to the mess in Washington, scandals, Watergate." Added Opal Lafayette, a blue-collar Democrat from Flint, Mich.: "Carter knows what it is like to work, and we need somebody to understand the little...
According to three separate polls, most Southern school administrators feel that the quality of education has improved where desegregation has taken place. In Norfolk, Va., massive busing to achieve racial balance in the schools was ordered in 1970. Over the next two years, the average standardized reading test scores for black students rose from 74.4 to 81.9 (on a national norm of 100), while white students' scores went up from 92.3 to 96.7. In Little Rock, says School Superintendent Paul R. Fair, "desegregation is working...