Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep religious faith. Carter is a born-again evangelical; Ford is an Episcopalian who participates in weekly White House prayer meetings. Says Georgetown University's Political Scientist Jeane Kirkpatrick: "They come from modest origins, having achieved personal success with hard work. Neither has the style of an urban sophisticate like a Kennedy or Roosevelt. Both have high levels of self-control...
...pending transition of power in Salisbury raises profound questions about the future of South Africa, where unrest in the black urban townships has continued sporadically since June; last week racial violence spread to downtown Johannesburg for the first time. In Rhodesia, the immediate question is whether the rival black factions can get together to help form a government. At present there are at least six candidates for the leadership of an independent Zimbabwe, as African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith...
Equally important are the vigorous efforts by Southern states to lure businessmen fed up with high taxes, physical decay and demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...
Evangelicals cut across racial and sectarian lines, dominating some bodies like the Southern Baptists and the Churches of Christ, acting as a counterweight in others, like the Methodists and Presbyterians. Southerners are the most churchgoing people in the nation, and from camp meeting through riverside baptisms to huge urban congregations, the tone and temper of Southern Protestantism is evangelical...
Most of the economic growth of this country over the next 25 years is going to occur in the Sunbelt. As the South grows, we have an opportunity to avoid the mistakes in urban growth that the North has made. I realize that you will have people of different economic levels living apart-the urban trend in the North has resulted in white suburbs and black ghettoes. That isn't easy to avoid; it is a matter of making housing opportunities available without discrimination...