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...back to Scott County. The only thing that divides the northwestern county, which borders on the edge of Kentucky, is the Cumberland mountains and the southern Appalachians. It has no political machines to run amok during elections, although the Republican label and the last name 'Baker' carry plenty of support. The schoolchildren, mostly sons and daughters of coal miners and farmers, attend lily white public schools and eat free lunches. Bussing has never mattered because Scott County has not had a single black resident for at least the last seven years. On Saturday afternoons the pick-up trucks drive into...
Although the report from Scott County looks strong, Baker will need more than one county to get to the White House. To lure female support, Baker supports the Equal Rights Amendment, though his record shows that he did not vote in favor of a time extension for its ratification...
BAKER HOPES TO BUILD that support with his move to amend SALT II and has some Congressional leaders reconsidering a decision to open the SALT debate to the television cameras. The extra-exposure could put Baker right back or the centerstage of 1974, with millions of Americans watching--which is just where he wants...
...idea of the school has become clearer, and the idea of its mission becomes larger, more people of wealth have been thinking about what they can do to support it," Allison says, adding that the school has attracted many gifts from people without close Harvard connections...
Unfortunately, Baldwin's female characters get no such support or sympathy. Whereas males in Just Above My Head find strength and identity through the love of other men, women are almost always victimized by men, and must then be redeemed by the love of--or more accurately, through sex with--yet another man. Women characters are not nearly so well drawn as the men, never as courageous or introspective or just plain deep. When the women are strong and serious, their virtues owe nothing to their own struggles, but result from serving men, being hurt by them or sharing their...