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...five Carter backers is not yet certain who the Democratic candidate is and where he stands. In addition, two out of three panelists fault Carter for being fuzzy on the issues. Paul Pizzini, a white-collar worker from Baltimore, likes Carter's fresh face, self-confidence and "Southern-fried charisma" but complained that "he changes his mind." Said Faith Foss, a college professor from Northampton, Mass.: "I think he goes with the wind." Some voters suspect that Carter is deliberately obfuscating. Said Leila Rohde, the wife of a postman in Sun Valley, Ariz.: "He speaks half-truths. He talks...
Doubts About Ford. Many of Ford's supporters on the panel have doubts about him. One out of five of them questions whether he has leadership ability, and one out of ten questions whether he is smart enough for the job. Said Francis Lindgren, a white-collar worker from Wayland, Mich.: "I don't look at Ford as being a truly great leader. When he gives a speech, it sounds like it came out of a can." Added Bill Mills, a plant manager from Denison, Texas: "I don't think he is as smart as other Presidents...
...gains for the blacks who work for GM have been less spectacular. Sullivan claims that GM has placed more than 5,000 blacks in white-collar jobs since he joined the company, and added 2,500 more black journeymen and apprentices. Still, blacks last year filled 16.8% of GM's blue-collar jobs-no more than in 1972-and 7% of the white-collar posts, the same proportion as in 1973. When Sullivan became a director, he called loudly for "more black dealerships-I don't mean ten more or 20 more, I mean hundreds more, ultimately." Nonetheless...
...employee who is a graduate of the College and works in student loans says the "team spirit" in his section is a paternalistic creation, and that it will frustrate the District 65 effort. Because the work is "less regimented than other white-collar work," he says, a team spirit flourishes. Or as Brown-Beasley says, "there's an extraordinary amount of intimacy here. One can hear the name Jerry [Jerrold Gibson] on the lips of many people here...
...obstacle course, the race was all but over. Starting out 17 months ago with no national political base, name recognition or backing from powerful interest groups, onetime Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter had carved out on his own a broad constituency of smalltown and rural voters, blue-collar ethnics, white-collar suburbanites, inner-city blacks. Week after week, winning primaries in the North, South and Midwest, he steadily thinned the ranks of his rivals. Last week by triumphing decisively and against formidable odds in Pennsylvania's pivotal primary, he all but crushed his remaining opposition, including Democratic Senior Statesman Hubert Humphrey...