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Declared a pro-Carter Democratic chairman in a Southeastern state: "It's terrible. It's hurt our image and the party's image. People are beginning to wonder, 'Is the President any smarter than his brother is?' " Claimed George Shipley, a Democratic Party pollster in Texas: "To put it crudely, it looks like the Beverly Hillbillies in the White House...
Such voters, says Haley Barbour, who managed Gerald Ford's Southeastern campaign in 1976, "will like Reagan better for choosing Bush. It shows he is pragmatic and not the kamikaze right-winger that some people would have you believe." William Durham, who ran Howard Baker's short-lived campaign in South Carolina, believes that the choice of Bush will especially help Reagan with young professionals who are economically conservative but socially liberal and who so far have found Reagan "difficult to swallow; they don't know what's behind...
DIED. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, 69, head football coach at Auburn University for 25 seasons (until 1975), and winner of more Southeastern Conference games than anyone but Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant and Mississippi's John Vaught; of leukemia; in Auburn, Ala. Jordan had 175 wins, 83 losses and seven ties; though Bryant's Crimson Tide beat Jordan's Tigers 13 times in 18 years, Auburn's five wins were the most against 'Bama by any S.E.C. team...
Robert Kott loved the small, neat home overlooking Black Creek in the southeastern corner of Niagara Falls, N.Y., a grimy industrial town near the Canadian border. In the 14 years since he acquired it the muscular chemical worker has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours painting, insulating and otherwise caring for his precious property. But last week Kott called it quits, shuttering up the house and fleeing with his wife Joann and their five children, ages seven to 15. Said he: "I don't mind telling you we've been scared for a long time, scared...
...guzzlers they do not want. Both Carter and industry officials would like the Japanese to construct assembly plants here, and last week Nissan Motor, which makes the Datsun, announced plans for a new $300 million truck plant to be built in either the Great Lakes region or the Southeastern U.S. Honda will begin construction of an auto plant by the end of 1980 next door to its Marysville, Ohio, motorcycle facility...