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...civil rights battles and the uphill struggle toward power in Congress, Young has retained an almost incongruous sense of humor. "I always used to enjoy throwing out ideas on foreign policy, acting like a gadfly, just to stimulate discussion," he said last week. "Then I got involved with this peanut farmer from Georgia and everyone has started to take me seriously...
...past three years, Brzezinski has served as director of the Trilateral Commission, which seeks to further economic and political collaboration among North America, Western Europe and Japan (TIME, Dec. 20). He met Carter at a commission conference in 1973 and was one of the few who early took the peanut farmer's presidential aspirations seriously. Assuming a tutor's role, he began sending articles on foreign policy to Carter. Later he was head of the election campaign's 28-man task force on defense and foreign affairs...
...Amoco station across the railroad tracks from the peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent...
...family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross of the family peanut business from $800,000 to $4 million plus...
...first sketched the kid with the cowlick in 1951. Gripes he: "I don't mind paying nine Swiss francs for a jar of something labeled beurre d'arachide crémeux. But when you figure out that it means $3.75 for a jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that he was on the verge of turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into chez Mitchell. Says he: "I may be leaving in time, just before I inadvertently put a bottle of wine on the Mitchell table and have Dennis...