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What kind of person is he? Carter has a deep sense of his roots. The first Scotch-Irish Carter arrived in Virginia before the Revolutionary War, and over the years the family moved farther south, to the southwestern Georgia hamlet of Plains (current population: 600). Cash-poor but land-rich, the Carters eventually accumulated some 2,000 acres of farm and woodland, raising peanuts and cotton. By Plains standards, they were patroons, leading citizens in a society keenly aware of hierarchy...
Flood Ravines. The nearly 10,000 spectators are a largely blue-collar crowd from small Southwestern towns. Dressed in DIESEL POWER T shirts and Peterbilt trailer-truck caps, they revel in the dust and noise. For some, off-road racing is an egalitarian country gathering. "My husband is a mechanic and I'm just a small-town housewife," says Loretta Pipkin from El Centre, Calif. "But out here everyone is equal...
Eisenhower, and even Ford, realized that maintaining liberty was never exactly Franco's forte. Yet maintaining freedom and democracy in the West--by strengthening the southwestern flank of NATO--seemed to justify support for Franco's repressive regime over the past 22 years. And this support cannot be underestimated. At crucial points in the development of Spain's economy, times when in other countries the conditions would have led to a revolutionary situation, the U.S. stepped in to boost Spain's economy...
...younger than his 51 years, but it also bears some hard lines from a strenuous rural past. The Carters have been stubbornly toiling in the red soil of Georgia for two centuries, and Jimmy was the first member of his family to finish high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper of the submarine Seawolf, but when...
William Nyhan of the University of California at San Diego and Roger Rosenberg of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas met with nearly 100 of Joseph's surviving relatives. They were able to assure those whose parents had escaped the disease that they ran no risk of developing-or passing on-the family ailment. But ten were found to have the disease, and 26 others-children of parents who have or had Joseph illness-may develop...