Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Carter knew a lot about tragedy and comedy. Among many other things, his father died when he was a teenager, and his older brother's accomplishments became a terrible burden. Yet when life crowded him, as it did so often, Billy, intelligent, sensitive, shy and insecure, would hide behind the mask of the clown. Last week Billy was buried in the red Georgia earth near Plains, his beloved hometown. His friends and family -- including brother Jimmy, the former President -- were there. They knew, if the rest of the world did not, what they had lost...
...proclaiming his honesty, Billy said, "I'm the only Carter who'll never lie to you." Another time he said, "My mother joined the Peace Corps when she was 70, my sister Gloria is a motorcycle racer, my other sister Ruth is a Holy Roller preacher, and my brother thinks he's going to be President of the United States. I'm really the only normal one in the family." Billy worked hard for Jimmy's election, but afterward the hucksters in Plains appalled him. "Maybe we should just put a tent over the entire town," he said, "and declare...
...Plains, took a job with a mobile-home company and tried to resume a normal life. Then came the cancer. In a sense, though, it wasn't his body that defeated him; it was the outside world. As Jimmy Carter wrote in his memoir, "He was the president's brother, and therefore fair game...
...brother Paul and his wife Silva are in similar straits. "What I'm afraid of," says Silva, gesturing across their apartment in Harbor City, only a few miles from where Paul's parents reside, "is to be living like this forever." The life she refers to, like Peggy's, doesn't look all that bad. They live in a modest but comfortable one-bedroom apartment. For most of the past eight years (they've been married for only a year), Paul has driven a delivery truck for a private mail company. He has worked...
...said, "I'd rather be carried out of the ring than never to have gone into it." When the Korean Byun lost to a Bulgarian by bitter decision, Byun wouldn't leave. All the black bow-tied referees in white had to pile through the ropes to rescue their brother from local officials and fans. It looked like a battle royal of barbers. When the smoke cleared, Byun was sitting in his corner. For over an hour he sat. After the lights were switched off, he lingered another long moment in the glow of a TV camera before clambering down...