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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amoco station across the railroad tracks from the peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...gashouse gang grew rowdier as one reporter after another shoved in to yell questions over the din. This was, after all, no ordinary small-town election. Oh, I don't really care, said Billy 50 different ways. His most credible explanation: "I lost because I drink beer on Sundays and because I'm a Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...doubt. Billy Carter not only drinks beer on Sundays, he gives it away at the service station in circumvention of Georgia's blue laws. After 5:30 p.m. on workdays, he spends time with a few six-packs and a roomful of cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...been married for 21 years, disputes his un-Christian image. "What nobody knows is that if Billy wants to go to church, he'll go to Americus [ten miles away] and go to church, and nobody knows anything about it." Billy is also a family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross of the family peanut business from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Pick up a mug of beer, brush off the foam...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: A Christmas Chimera | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

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