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...some, the high point was Jimmy Carter's unexpected thank-you to Gerald Ford "for all he has done to heal our land." For others, it was Carter's unprecedented stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House after he was sworn in. But for many, the most memorable-and symbolic-moment came when a black choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic in honor of a Southern President...
News Item: Jimmy Carter sworn in as President...
Something of the same spirit was in evidence when James B. Hunt Jr., 39, was sworn in as North Carolina's new Governor at a celebration that said a good deal about the South today. There were vestiges of the Old South: the official organizers served nothing stronger than nonalcoholic Catawba grape juice, though they tolerated hip flasks of bourbon and Scotch. But there were also elements of the New South: many of the majorettes in the inaugural parade were black, and at the ball, after some foot-stomping folk dances by the Grandfather Mountain Cloggers, the North Carolina...
...priest of either sex. In an unusual last-minute plea to prevent the action, Colorado's Bishop William Frey had wired Colleague Moore: "Ordination of practicing homosexuals does not represent the mind of the church and is plainly contrary to the teachings of Scripture which we have all sworn to uphold...
Still, the sense of urgency is gone, and the President spends much of his time pondering why Jimmy Carter, and not he, will be sworn into office on Jan. 20. With visitors he can talk and joke about his defeat and the future without much melancholy. And yet the wound is there. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey chatted recently with the President and took away the impression that Ford is not sure why his job, which he came to love more than any he had ever held, is being taken away. For fear of hurting someone, he refused...