Word: swings
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Although Fallows expects to return to journalism after Novermber 2 no matter who triumphs, he does not use the brevity of his tenure to sidestep inquiries about his passage from The Crimson to the Carter campaign. In a series of interviews last week, as he accompanied Carter in a swing through Florida, North Carolina and New York, Fallows detailed the changes in his temperament and in the political atmosphere of the country that led him to join Carter's entourage...
Buoyed by large and rousing crowds on his first extended campaign swing since he won his party's nomination, Gerald Ford opened the week with a three-day foray into the South. In Alabama and Mississippi, his audiences -mostly white and affluent-cheered his attacks on Carter's vow to cut the growth in defense spending and roared approval of the President's opposition to gun controls...
...kith and kin in such a fashion can be debated (see TIME ESSAY), there is no doubt that the cheerfully assorted Carters and Fords have enlivened the 1976 race for the White House. "They provide a spark," says Chuck Parrish, Carter's coordinator in the swing state of Texas. "They bring the excitement of the national campaign down to the local level." Jack Ford, the President's 24-year-old son, might also be speaking for the Carter children when he says, "Since the character of the candidate is so important in this campaign, those...
President Julius Nyerere, 54, is the leader of the front-line-five chiefs, occupying the swing position between the moderates and the militants. Tanzania's capital, Dar es Salaam, is headquarters of the Organization of African Unity committee charged with planning confrontation strategy with white regimes, as well as a port for guerrilla supplies from the Soviet Union and China. Five thousand Rhodesian insurgents are training in Tanzanian camps...
...week-long Jacaranda Festival is in full swing. The thoroughbreds are running at the Borrowdale Race Course, the stores are holding sales, and whites out in the suburbs are talking about filling their swimming pools again. Yet there is a definite undercurrent of foreboding. At the annual Jacaranda Parade, which featured the usual floats and miniskirted majorettes (both black and white), a white housewife said calmly: "We won't see many more of these. The blacks won't bother with parades. They take too much effort and organization...