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...sprawling Seventh District. On the road at 7 a.m. one rainy day, he drove from his 850-acre farm to a barn more than 100 miles away for a talk with a dozen farmers and their families and a spread of cold milk, homemade blueberry cake and chocolate chip cookies. "You must be a good man," said Dairy Farmer Robert Regnell. "You brought rain." Added Lawrence Wimmer, owner of the barn: "A Republican can be a good...
...will find that harder to do, given its painful heritage. Encouraging incentive in the underclass, and overcoming the barriers of racism, could take just five or ten years; more likely, the tasks will require a generation or more. The entire society?business, government and ordinary citizens?will have to chip away at the problems. The alternative to progress would be more desperation, hostility, violence and disaffection within the underclass. That is something even the world's wealthiest country would find difficult to afford...
...blue-blooding of Carter may come as a considerable surprise to the President's family, which hitherto has traced its roots to a different and less-distinguished Virginia branch. (On his visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
Because costs are lower, these stations can chip 4? to 5? off the price of a gallon of gas (current nationwide average: 63? per gal.), attract more customers and sell more fuel. Almost half of all the stations in the nation are now self-service, v. only 8% three years...
...headcount of Carters at the White House is going down by one. Second son Chip Carter, 27, is moving out in a trial separation from his wife Caron, who will stay on with the couple's five-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip will return to Plains to work in the family's peanut warehouse. His dad was already vacationing down on the farm. The President angled for catfish, had breakfast with Miss Lillian in her pond house and inspected peanut, corn and watermelon fields. To while away the steamy Georgia afternoon, he invited the army...