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...tional pressure lately that any fraternal rebuke might provoke even worse outbursts. Said one aide: "The President has been terribly upset about the whole thing, about his brother going to pot . . ." There were indeed reports last week that Billy was brooding, jittery and deeply despondent in the hospital in Americus, Ga., where he is confined for bronchitis. But his physician, Dr. Paul Broun, insisted that Billy was not "seriously ill." Said he: "Seriously ill means it could lead to his demise...
...Jimmy (as everyone called him) was in his own low, rambling house, making Cabinet choices to the accompaniment of comic gallops by the baffled world press up and down the narrow streets to interview job hopefuls, then on to the nearest motels in Americus (ten miles away) for sparse rest and food. The food came, famously, from the now legendary Faye's Bar-B-Q Villa-a good steak served in the Formica rooms of a "double-wide mobile home" parked in a mud lot behind a filling station near some rotting tourist cabins...
...control under pressure, the town council has severely limited commercial building. In addition to the two shops mentioned and the church, I could count only one other shop (more souvenirs) and a small grocery store; no neon in sight. The nearest motels are still ten miles away in Americus; and while there are one or two opportunities for respectable snacks in Plains itself (try the Main Street Cafe), the nearest full menu is also toward Americus (including a startlingly good French country restaurant as recompense for Faye...
...pale, cream-colored tuxedo with brown piping and a broad brown stripe down each trouser leg. His hair is rapidly turning gray now, and he wept a little as he gave his 18-year-old daughter away to 19-year-old Johnny Theus, who works in an Americus mobile-home factory...
About now the No. 1 citizen will have his forms on his desk. Accountant Bob Perry from Americus, Ga., and Atlanta Attorney Harvey Hill did the figuring. Jimmy Carter will cast a critical eye over the totals. Rosalynn will check the household items. When they sign their joint return, by some estimates, they could be paying far more than $100,000, registering some of the same wonder and pain that will accompany the other 87,999,999 returns...