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...office of children and youth. Says he: "Locking up most juveniles is nonsense, unless you intend to keep them in jail until they're 60. The kid locked up is more likely to be trouble once he's freed." Jerry Miller, 45, a pudgy, rumpled ex-Maryknoll seminarian, has acted on that philosophy through seven tumultuous years as a juvenile administrator dedicated to keeping kids out of primitive lockups...
...taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...
...prairies last week, Ronald Reagan missed few opportunities to reveal his indulgence in prayer and Bible reading. About the same time, California Governor Jerry Brown, the former Jesuit seminarian, was walking among the fishermen of Maryland's Eastern Shore, testing his presidential potential with scriptural overtones ("He who enters last shall be first...
Thus the former Jesuit seminarian with the classical world view who has been known chiefly for his studied Spartan life-style and talk about lowering expectations must be taken a bit more seriously in the Democratic scramble. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook herewith examines the Governor's record and his chances...
...young apostle of nonviolence in the '60s, was arrested more than 40 times in civil rights demonstrations, and his skull was fractured at Selma in 1965. Since 1970 he has headed the Voter Education Project in Atlanta and helped register some 3.5 million blacks. As a Baptist seminarian, Lewis was kidded for talking up the Social Gospel, but he insists that some "immutable principles" must be at the base of the "Beloved Society" he envisions, and nonviolence is one of them. If a compassionate world is the end, he argues, "then the means we use must be consistent with...