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...mistakes and raised questions about them. In terms of intelligence, Heller estimates Carter would rank among the upper 5% or 10% of graduate students in top universities. Says Okun: "What struck me is you really see an engineer's mind at work, not a peanut farmer, not a Baptist preacher, not a standard politician, but the engineering and management-science approach...
Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
...Rolling Stone's History of R&R--top of my list to Santa this year--there's a story about the preacher who went out and burnt $2000 worth of records aided by obnoxious little troglodytes from his youth group. Those vinyl grooves promoted lasciviousness and good stuff like that--and so he saw to it that they died, melting together in passionate flames only cooler than the brimstone their seducees have in store for them. But if you're one who prepared to risk a perpetual sauna with no snow to roll sinfully and Scandinavianly in afterwards...
...just a poor little ol' country preacher," Benjamin Hooks likes to say, and there are a few unwary souls around who may believe him. Those who have had dealings with him in his native Memphis or in Washington, where he is the first and only black member of the Federal Communications Commission, know better. Hooks, 51, is a shrewd, articulate spokesman for his race. His country cover was probably blown for good when he was named this month to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., the country's oldest civil rights organization...
...literary magazine Books and Bookmen. The heir apparent claims that Victoria was greatly misunderstood because of her famous judgment: "We are not amused." Actually, she was a "charming character" who "adored" a good laugh, says the prince. He cites, for example, an encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria at Crathie Church near Balmoral Castle, MacGregor appealed to the Almighty to "send down his wisdom on the Queen's ministers-who sorely need it." The plea caused some commotion in the royal pew. Writes Historian Charles: "Queen Victoria went purple...