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...storm grew and evasive tactics became more common: find Billy. In midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles out of town, where...
DIVORCED. James Earl ("Chip") Carter III, 29, the President's party-loving second son, now employed as assistant to the manager of Carter's campaign staff; and Caron Carter, 29, Georgia schoolteacher; after seven years of marriage, one child (a son, James Earl Carter IV); in Americus...
Major metropolitan hospitals are not the only ones involved in the technology race. Jimmy Carter in April confessed that, as a member of the governing board of Georgia's Americus and Sumter County Hospital in the 1960s he had particpated in bilking his neighbors. Said the President: "We were naturally inclined to buy a new machine whenever it became available. Then we required every patient who came to the hospital to submit their body to the machine, whether they needed it or not, to rapidly defray the purchase. I did not realize then that I was ripping off people...
...obviously not the bronchitis with which Billy Carter, 41, had been hospitalized that led his presidential elder brother to diagnose Billy at a recent press conference as "seriously ill." Last week the younger Carter, accompanied by Wife Sybil, checked out of an Americus, Ga., hospital and flew to California to dry out at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Service of the Long Beach I Naval Regional Medical Center. Carter, who has admitted guzzling two dozen beers a day, will undergo six weeks of group therapy and psychodrama in order to learn how to deal with his drinking problem. Betty Ford and Billy...
Another sour note in the Carter family week came when Gloria Carter Spann kept playing her harmonica in an Americus restaurant. Other customers complained. Police were called, vainly ordered the First Sister to stop, and finally arrested her for disorderly conduct...