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...Americans too. A veteran Foreign Service officer recalls that in Saigon discontented "dependent wives" sympathized with the V.C. "They talked about 'our struggle' as if there was some connection between the guerrillas shelling Nhatrang and a lot of old hens in the embassy compound refusing to make peanut-butter sandwiches...
...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 of reporters camping out in Americus to come...
...Georgia he was Jimmy Carter's friend, sharing his triumphs, helping him borrow money for his peanut warehouse. As a New South go-go banker, he made himself a millionaire, and he was one of the first men whom Carter appointed to a Cabinet-level position. Now the director of the Office of Management and Budget-who cruised around Washington during Inaugural week in a black Cadillac bearing special license plates with BERT on the front bumper and LANCE on the back-might be the first man to go. Last week Bert Lance was rapidly becoming an embarrassment...
Cloud Seeding. In Vienna, Ga., home town of President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, Dooly County Farm Agent Mack Sloan manages a weak wisecrack: "If it don't rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week...
ITEM: In West Hollywood, members of a group called the Germs try to redeem a slow evening at the Whisky by smearing themselves with peanut butter...