Word: sumter
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...including $1,500 in unpaid bills, the President computed his net worth as of Jan. 1 at exactly $1,005,910.25. That was up from $795,357.74 a year earlier, chiefly because of the rising value of 2,000 acres of farm land that Carter owns in Sumter and Webster counties in southwestern Georgia. The President had a comfortable income last year of $267,195, including $250,000 in salary and expense money from the Government. His autobiography Why Not the Best? brought him more than $20,000 in royalties, most of which he plans to donate to unnamed charities...
Major metropolitan hospitals are not the only ones involved in the technology race. Jimmy Carter in April confessed that, as a member of the governing board of Georgia's Americus and Sumter County Hospital in the 1960s he had particpated in bilking his neighbors. Said the President: "We were naturally inclined to buy a new machine whenever it became available. Then we required every patient who came to the hospital to submit their body to the machine, whether they needed it or not, to rapidly defray the purchase. I did not realize then that I was ripping off people...
...modern day sports, has remained fundamentally unchanged in design and spirit since its genesis in the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the game is attributed in folklore to Abner Doubleday. Besides founding the national sport, Gen. Doubleday--after graduating from West Point--was present at Fort Sumter, where as an artillery captain he sighted the first cannon fired by the Union in the Civil...
...older mortar is visible, the oldest hope anywhere and still a strong refreshment. Two minutes by car in any direction from the center of town will put you in the fields and woods of Sumter County. So I prowled for hours on the nearly empty roads-bare flats of resting purple earth; gentle folded hills on which naked hardwoods are swallowed in tall pines black in winter green; slow wheeling buzzards, hawks stalled above like statues of hawks, long crepe ribbons of starlings drifting south. The fact that crucial landmarks from the formative years of a man of present immense...
...learn from the doctor who delivered her that she was descended from two of the most illustrious families of America, the Blairs of Maryland and the Andersons of Virginia. One grandfather had been Lincoln's Postmaster General; the other had commanded Union forces at Fort Sumter. Her unmarried mother, Maria Anderson, had given her out for adoption, with a promise some day to come back for her. She never did, and Sunny spent most of her life seeking a claim to lineage...