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...trek to Somerville, but Steve's is worth the half-hour wait on line. At Steve's you can design a frozen edifice of delicious made-on-the-premises ice cream and m and m's, fruit, whipped cream, coconut and other nuts, crushed Heath Bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the quintessential maraschino cherry. If you aren't drooling now, you will be after you've waited in the round-the-block lines just to get in the unpretentios little store with the salt-rock ice cream mixers in front...
According to the statement, the Carter family peanut business, which is 62% owned by the President, ran $73,572.44 in the red last year, after losing more than $300,000 in 1977. From the thriving family farm, which is 91% owned by Carter, Kirbo made loans of $250,000 to the warehouse and $250,000 to Billy Carter. The farm land that Billy pledged as collateral was promptly assumed by the trust, apparently as a face-saving way to free him from the debt...
...donors. Included were a crossbow from Admirer Wladyslaw Adamowski of Poland, a handmade Cherokee Indian headdress from Iron Eyes Cody of Los Angeles, a 32-cassette tape recording of the Koran recited by Mahmond El Husary of Cairo's Islamic Academy, and a vermeil chain with 62 gold peanut pendants from Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy. All of the gifts were turned over to the Government, with five exceptions; a Norman Rockwell book from the Boy Scouts of America, a limited edition of Poet James Dickey's tribute to Composer Aaron Copland, two Cherokee Indian clay pots...
Henry Ford's grandson was contemptuous. "Like trying to cure cancer in five years," he grumped. "Brock wants to repeal the laws of thermodynamics," said a man at General Motors. "A peanut butter car," hooted the Wall Street Journal recalling a dream from earlier decades that some day anything-even peanut butter-could be used as fuel. One auto engineer said they already had "a bellows car" powered by Secretaries of Transportation turning a handle that shot hot air out the back...
Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for its price, putting it back... Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming...