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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Earl Carter Jr., the oldest of four, had a typical rural boyhood. When he was not at school he was working in the fields. His home lacked electricity and running water. Initiative was esteemed. At nine, he bought five bales of cotton with money he had saved from selling peanuts and stashed them away. A few years later, he sold them for enough profit to buy five old houses in Plains and became a landlord. The venture made him a confirmed capitalist...
...world's oldest profession has come in from the streets, organized as a not-so-undercover protest group. Prostitutes, inspired by the womens', civil rights and labor movements, have found political consciousness and, in turn, confidence that the hooker's lot can be improved...
Vesco, his wife Patricia and his four oldest children plan to become Costa Rican citizens after they fulfill their five-year residence requirement in mid-1977. They figure their chances for acceptance can only be enhanced by the birth of Son Patrick Francisco-an undisputed Costa Rican citizen-last November. Says Vesco: "I am hopeful that some day the politicians will find something else to play around with, and it will all die down. All we want is to be left alone...
...murders-albeit inadvertently-the man who turned his oldest sister Concettina into a whore, chops the body up and ships it north in three suitcases...
...worst. "I had read about the persecutions of Mormons in Illinois [where Joseph Smith was pulled from a jail and killed by an angry mob], and I kind of expected a little persecution," she says with a nervous smile that hardly conceals her embarassment at this paranoia. The oldest of seven children ("people always joke about Mormons and Catholics," she adds), Bybee chose Radcliffe over BYU, her parent's favorite. "They were afraid I would fall in love with and marry someone from the East." The fear, she explains, was only geographical; they did not want her to settle...