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...Nicholson '76 approached Thomas J. Curley '78 that way last spring, and Curley was interested. He didn't have a job lined up for the summer, and the money certainly sounded good. But after a few weeks of working for Southwestern Publishing Co. last summer in Tucson, Ariz., Curley packed up and went home...
Dennis J. Rinehart '77 had been recruited in a similar way in the fall of 1974, through a friend he worked with on the dorm crew. Rinehart also left his Southwestern job in Phoenix--after four weeks--and went home after writing Southwestern a check for $120 to pay for the books he sold. Later, they sent him a check for $150. There was no $30 profit, however. Rinehart paid his own transportation from Boston to Nashville, where he went through a week of training, and from Nashville to Phoenix, along with his hotel and meal costs...
...even sharper ups and downs at Trans World Airlines. With huge infusions of cash, he built it from a small southwestern carrier into a globe girdler. It was also his fief. He chose planes, tinkered with design improvements and harassed TWA's presidents with interminable post-midnight calls. On transcontinental flights, four to six seats were always blocked off for him even though he almost never used them. After Hughes' failure to raise the money for TWA's jet fleet, he lost control of the airline, and the new management hit him with an antitrust suit. Hughes...
...youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...
JODY POWELL, 32, Press Secretary. A southwestern Georgia farm boy, he was raised in Vienna (pronounced Vie-anna), not far from Carter's home town of Plains, and was headed for a military career until he was dismissed from the Air Force Academy for cribbing on a history exam in 1964. While working on a doctorate in political science at Georgia State University, he joined Carter as his driver in the 1970 campaign and later became press secretary. Powell spends much time these days replying to charges, often false, about Carter's past...