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...first race for statewide office was the 1966 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Running on his progressive record as a state senator, he moved from the status of an unknown to a surprising third-place position in the crowded contest that, after a runoff, was finally won by Lester Maddox. Carter started preparations for the 1970 race immediately after that defeat. He took to poring over old Georgia budgets, and at the other extreme, stretching his mind on the likes of Reinhold Niebuhr and Dylan Thomas. Carter crisscrossed the state scores of times, delivering 1,800 speeches to small-town civic groups...
...opposed busing, visited a private segregated academy and said he would welcome meetings with George Wallace. He also appealed to the ever-potent populist instincts of the state by promising to oppose Establishment power brokers and big money interests. He beat former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic runoff and went on to a 200,000-vote victory over the Republican candidate, Atlanta Television Newsman Hal Suit...
...Integration is becoming accepted, except when attempts are made to eliminate de facto segregation by busing. This is about the same reception integration has received in the rest of the country. This doesn't mean, however, that the race question is quiet. George Wallace did win a close runoff in 1970 by waging perhaps the most blatantly racist campaign of the past decade. And during gossip over a meal-one afternoon a Baptist minister grinned and told us how "Down our way there was this nigger that killed a woman. The sheriff went down...
...Newton, Mass., called Steam Engine Systems, or SES. Similar contracts to develop non-steam, low-pollution vapor engines using organic fluids like fluronol instead of water have gone to California's Aerojet-General Corp. and Thermo Electron of Waltham, Mass. The environmental agency expects to hold a competitive runoff by year's end to determine which of the three engines merits additional federal money...
...about 1100 to 1200 cubic feet of water per second, all of which is heated to about 18 F above its original temperature. Although over 900 reactors are expected in the U. S. by the year 2000, just 120 of them would require more water than the total annual runoff from the continental U. S. Coastal power stations which use ocean water are being offered as a solution to this problem...