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SOUTH. Carter's homeboy status and religiosity far outweigh any gaffes and organizational disputes everywhere except in Virginia and Texas. In both, Ford seems to be moving up. Texas Democrats took Carter's Playboy confession of mental lechery in stride, but still simmer over his linkage of Native Son Lyndon Johnson with Richard Nixon in "lying, cheating and distorting the truth." Even so, Lady Bird Johnson is still a member of Carter's Texas steering committee. Carter has also lost some support in Mississippi, but Florida seems safely in his camp, and he seems overwhelmingly ahead...
...sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
...followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or red. Sex and violence only simmer; it can take years for marriage and divorce merely to be broached...
Double Digits. Economists nearly unanimously assume that the inflation rate will continue to simmer down gradually this year?or they did until Ford announced his program. Now they are not so sure. Eckstein predicts that the energy package would make 1975 a second straight year of double-digit inflation, meaning that prices would rise 10% or more. Many of the businessmen and bankers who normally constitute the backbone of a Republican President's support are also seriously worried. "The biggest fear to me is inflation, not recession," says William H. Spoor, chairman of Pillsbury Co. Richard H. Vaughan, president...
Puking Hypocrisy. The delay and the growing debate led some Republicans to accuse Democrats of letting the nomination simmer for partisan reasons. Said Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan: "It's hard to tell where the serious questions about this nomination leave off and the politics begin." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called the controversy "mewling and puking hypocrisy" and added: "I don't think that he ought to be convicted for his generosity...