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...President's nine-day, 18,500-mile odyssey is heavy on symbolic acts...
This is the first leg of a presidential grand tour that will be resumed in March, when Carter visits Africa and South America. The four-continent odyssey originally was to have taken place in one installment last November, but it was postponed because Congress had not finished work on the energy bill. With the legislation still stalled in Congress, Carter decided to make the trip anyway, maintaining that this might somehow encourage a House-Senate conference committee to speed up work on the bill after its members return from vacation...
...wings of Air Force One, glistening in their new coat of Glass Wax, have swooped through the skies of Eastern Europe and ancient Persia. Jimmy Carter's Georgia gang have dined aloft on steak and eggs, chewed Doublemint, and sent home their first dispatches from their airborne odyssey...
...Greek odyssey...
...second night of their New York odyssey the cagers leading scorers were senior center Brian Banks and junior forward Bob Hooft. Banks chalked up 21 points--shooting seven of nine from the field--while Hooft carded 18, hitting on seven of eight shots and drawing fouls on four of the buckets...