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...this-plus the controversy over the integration of the Baptist church several weeks ago-has ignited bitter feuds. Says Gloria Spann, Carter's sister: "Plains used to be just like a family. But it's split now. Families are split. The church is split." Two weeks ago, Billy Carter nearly came to blows with a local real estate agent during a rezoning hearing. Says Mrs. Wiggins: "Sure, people are getting greedy. But what really upsets me is that one or two families who have already made a lot of money are trying to keep everyone else from getting...
...elder daughter Gloria, two years younger than Jimmy, is also close by on the west edge of Plains with her husband Walter Spann. She tries to place herself for you at once and tell a too simple tale-"I'm a farm wife and nothing else; listen, I'm country." Country covers a good many things-most of the life of mankind, for one-but what she seems to be asking to mean is naive, innocent. Again the face talks when the mouth reneges-her mother's face on Gloria, 30 years younger, broader, lined differently...
...preordained choice agreed upon by a small group of A.B.A. leaders generally runs for the top spot-with about as much opposition as Leonid Brezhnev faces. This year the quasi-official nominee was William B. Spann Jr., 64, an Atlanta attorney who has been active in the A.B.A. for four decades. But Spann's relatively liberal inclinations distressed Houston Corporate Lawyer Leroy Jeffers, 66, a partner of John Connally, a former president of the Texas bar and, most important, a two-fisted conservative who believes the A.B.A. has plunged foolishly into broad national legal issues instead of sticking...
Torpid Crawl. That was as far as he got. At the A.B.A.'s 99th annual meeting in Atlanta last week, Spann won by a lopsided 260-to-59 vote in the governing House of Delegates.* But the Jeffers insurgency was a signal that recent efforts to move the A.B.A. onto a moderately activist course may have slowed to a torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion...
...President-elect Spann will take office next August. Chicago Corporate Lawyer Justin A. Stanley, 65, heads the A.B.A. this year and plans to push his pet project: getting more legal conflicts out of the courts and into arbitration, mediation and lawyerless small-complaint tribunals...