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Georgia's Governor Jimmy Carter last week became the second Democrat, following Arizona Representative Morris Udall, to announce his candidacy for the presidency in 1976. A blue-eyed big-time peanut farmer noted for his folksy charm, Carter, 50, bears a slight physical resemblance to John F. Kennedy. He was one of the major formulators of party strategy this year as chairman of the Democrats' National Campaign Committee. One of the chief political figures to show concern about erasing the remaining gap between black and white in the modern South, Carter as Governor has become a symbol...
...again proved to be a conscientious conductor, sensibly placing music before histrionics. The orchestra was well-disciplined and seemed well-rehearsed. But one could not forget that the Bach Society is, after all, a student organization. While the forte tutti sections were played with gusto, the subtleties of phrasing, slight accentuations, and nuances in dynamics were never quite made apparent, for fear of sacrificing precision and ensemble. This was also a problem in the pianissimo sections and during some of the solo and chamber passages...
...guidelines are used voluntarily by colleges to compute the percentage of a student's expenses that should be paid by his family. Harvard generally makes slight changes in the guidelines before applying them, Raduchel said, but rarely makes as widespread adjustments as this year...
...limit would mean that the Soviets would have to phase out about 100 launchers, since they are now estimated to have some 2,500. This includes 1,618 ICBMS, 740 seaborne missiles and 150 bombers. For the U.S., a slight increase in launchers would be permitted. The U.S. now has about 2,200, including 1,054 land-based ICBMs, 656 submarine-fired missiles and 500 strategic bombers. Within the overall limit, each side would be able to alter the mix of its types of weapons...
Johanson's fossil, which he thinks may be 4 million years old. could push the history of man even further back. His evidence that the jawbone belonged to Homo rather than a hominid is probably based on subtle differences: slight nuances of size and shape in the fossil teeth. But Johanson is convinced that these teeth belonged to a full-fledged Homo, who probably used them to eat meat, which he obtained by "using tools, possibly bones, to kill animals." Furthermore, since there is recent geological evidence that Ethiopia's Awash Valley may once have been part...