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...world] looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.") Chip lives with his wife Caron in a $8,100 mobile home near the Plains railroad station. A member of the Plains city council, he plans to go into the family peanut business. Some day he may run for higher office...
...presidential candidates took a private rest down home with just a few hundred intimate friends and reporters. Jimmy Carter invited more than 100 kinsmen, journalists and neighbors to a back-country fish fry at his mother's Scandinavian-modern house in the dark slash-pine woods near his peanut fields in sweltering Plains, Ga. The homey cookout was called partly to ease an ecological imbalance in the family pond. As often happens in politics and ponds, the larger fish were gobbling up the smaller fry, making the fishing hole unhealthy...
...Chip, 26, partially drained the pond, plunged in as deep as their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
...Jimmy Carter depends on and trusts above all others, Charles Hughes Kirbo, 59, was talking about his boyhood days in the peanut and sawmill country of rural south Georgia. Kirbo's voice is so slow and soft that people sometimes cock their heads to hear him. His daddy, Ben Kirbo, he said, used to be a court reporter in their home town of Bainbridge and often worked right through the day into evening sessions. The son always took Ben a sack of food at night, and then stuck around to watch the trials. In those days the court...
Carter's poor showing in Oregon, coming after his unimpressive victory over Rep. Morris Udall (D.-Ariz.) in Michigan and his loss to Brown in Maryland last week, may slow the Georgia peanut farmer's bid for the Oval Office...