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...Candidate Gil Carmichael. "His spiritual issue is probably one of the best gut issues." Yet Carter's course is also hazardous. He has so stressed his honesty, freshness and reasonableness that any slip into a clear deception or another heated controversy might seem a betrayal. His "ethnic purity" remark was a precarious slip, but he seems to have weathered that mistake (see story page...
...remark was beginning to look more and more like an embarrassing gaffe than a fatal mistake. All last week Jimmy Carter was charmingly convincing as he reassured his many black supporters that he was still in favor of open housing-indeed that he would "fight for the right of people to move where they choose, even though they might not be welcome in the neighborhood when they attempt to move there." It was just that he did not want the Federal Government forcing a particular "economic or ethnic" mix on well-established neighborhoods...
Risky Course. The remark was one sign of Humphrey's uncomfortable realization that he is now at the mercy of events that he did not count on. His hopes of becoming the Democratic candidate without running in the primaries were in serious danger...
...arithmetic underlying that gallows humor, reports TIME Supreme Court Correspondent David Beckwith, should be chilling to those who last week presented oral arguments asking the court to eliminate capital punishment finally and completely. For the remark assumed that Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell, who voted against finding the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in 1972, will continue to hold to that position. If new Justice John Paul Stevens joins them or if either Potter Stewart or Byron White switches sides, then the nine-year nationwide executions hiatus will be near...
...characteristic remark, utterly self-assured and mockingly arrogant. But when Bernard Law Montgomery died at 88 last week at Hampshire, England, there was no shortage of experts who agreed-almost. Historian A.J.P. Taylor felt that Montgomery was "the best British field commander since Wellington." Dwight Eisenhower, World War II boss of the brusque and banty (5 ft. 8 in.) field marshal, said that Monty was tops at winning the admiration of his men and in fighting set-piece battles. Others called Montgomery s overrated and unimaginative as a general and spiteful and cantankerous as a man. Whatever the final verdict...