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...scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...goes from Jimmy who? to Jimmy you-know-who is the only logical choice for Man of the You-Know-What. Congratulations for picking the peanut farmer from you-know-where...
People in rural areas were afraid that even though Carter will be the first farmer in the White House since Thomas Jefferson, a peanut grower may not understand corn-belt problems. Because of unseasonably dry and cold weather this winter, the Midwest may end up at harvest time with unusually low yields in such high-income crops as corn and soybeans...
...memories of his boyhood include the long dusty hours that he worked in the family fields. After he became a full-time farmer in 1953, Carter and Wife Rosalynn boned up on the latest agricultural techniques, gradually increased their holdings to 2,000 acres and greatly expanded the family peanut warehouse. The warehouse business now has annual revenues of about $1 million, and in 1975 paid Carter...
Keeping a Carter down on the peanut farm these days is not easy. The President-elect's younger brother Billy, 39, figured it would be a lark to go up, up and away in a hot-air balloon. "I ain't worried about getting up," he said. "It's coming down." A contingent of reporters big enough for a moon shot watched Billy soar aloft, narrowly missing a utility pole, and sail over the pine trees of Americus, Ga., with the pilot and a friend. Billy blithely ignored federal recommendations that ballooners use hard hats. Instead...