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Monday, August 25, 1C33Th3 Daily Ttr Hcc:.Tcrsp:ciivcZ-5 ''If " f ff wff) o j3y WILLIAM DURHAM PLAINS, GA-.-It was a rainy niht in Georgia. The mists rose in wisps as I trudged along a downtown street. Red and blue neon flashed in bkek puddles. Stale coffee and a cold hamburger sat in my stomach like battery acid and a lump of clay. , I was on my way to interview a man who is to be, perhaps, the quintessential man of the 1930s. His involvement in international affairs has been well documented by the world press. He has connections in the highest offices in the nation. He nimbly treads the narrow line between crafty deviousness and outright illegality. His name? Billy Carter. And yet he is a modest man. He postponed interviews on national television with the three major networks in order to chat with me". He wears blue jeans or overalls and drinks beer. He is not overly fastidious in his personal habits. I met him in an inexpensive hamburger cafe on a side street. He was eating fried chicken and drinking beer, just as if he weren't the president's brother. After casual introductions, I leapt right into the interview. "DlUy (I may call you ElUy, mayn't I? Thank you), how do you feel sitting here eating fried chicken and drinking beer, knowing that your brother is the president of the United States?" v He chewed a while before answering. Then he flashed that impish grin which has made him known the world over and said, "Uh, Ah love mah Brother Jimmy. Ah try to be a good brother to him." It is rare' to find such childlike sincerity in a public figure of Billy's prominence. I told him this. He shrugged and said, "Aw shucks." "Billy, you are aware, I am sure, that the recent publicity concerning your relations with the Libyan government has been a source of potential embarrassment for your brother, coming as it did just before the convention." "Harriet, bring out some more beer," he shouted. "Yes, sir, Ah am aware of that. But mah brother and Ah are very close, and we love each other. Ah do mah best to please mah brother Jimmy, but Ah can't do it all the time." "Do you think that you should try to maintain a lower profile in order to avoid embarrassment?" He spat out a chicken bone and grinned toothily. He waved a beefy arm, a .bulky gold watch flashing. I was discovering just what kind of charisma this man had that had charmed heads of state the world over, He exuded hospitality and a rather peculiar odor. "Why don't y'all have some fried chicken' He said. I took a leg and began to gnaw it. It was gray and greasy, but had that good old farm flavor that is so delightful. Still chewing the stringy yet flavorful meat, I asked the most biting of my battery of questions. "Billy, did you and your brother conspire illegally in the Libya affair, and did the president then purposely withhold information?" "Well, mah lawyers have advised me not to answer any questions on this matter," Billy sighed, his cherubic face sadh wistful. "But, because you're a friehd, and all after all, y'all've eaten fried chicken with me (this accompanied by a playful swipe at my shoulder, leaving grease stains on my trench coat) Ah feel that Ah can tell y'all that mah brother Jimmy and Ah haven't done anythin' illegal that Ah know of." He giggled, popping 'another beer open with a practiced flip of his wrist. "Ah love mah brother Jimmy." He grinned and tilted his head back, guzzling the entire can. With another grin, he crushed the empty can on his head. He was a man undaunted by the exalted company he kept. . He had to leave just then to meet with several network reporters, but he took the time to wrap up some chicken and cheesecake. With a "See y'all later" arid a wave he was driven off in a large limousine, surrounded by a bevy of Secret Service men. Slapping my battered fedora on my head, I shuffled off into the drizzle of ; the night. I reflected that it was refreshing to meet a public figure imbded with such delightful innocence. A reporter is cynical by nature, but after talking with Billy I felt like having a glass of warm milk and going to bed. And so I shuffled on into the gloom of the njight. ' ' William' Durham, a junior English major from Chapel Hill, is editorial assistant for The Daily Tar Heel. Live Music Uht Summer ' Lunchet served Monday thru Saturday Homemade Pastas & Sauces Cold Plates, Antipasto Plates and Beverages tt'1 2:C0 a.m. Our patio b pan and we are serving 7 nights a week. Convenient, free parking ?nd all ABC Permits Enjoy AUTHENTIC Italbn Cpoldna at Martini's'! 2C5 VV. MAIN ST., CARRBOIIO 957-4S34 Casual Cdmer' s TV YTOf 1 v( x))L.fi w 1 ' ii i Ms J v y - . Casual Corner would like to welcome the returning students end trio new incoming freshmen by offering an introductory 20 discount cn your purchase. Casual Corner is stocked with all the latest fall fashions, so bring your I. D. card, the coupon below and your naked body to Casual Cornerwe'll do the rest! STUDENT 20 DISCOUNT COUPON Pica to brinj this coupon with your college I.D. cr tcrr.pcrary I.D. for year 2Q discount at your r.rarcrt Ccttuil Corner. Only cr.? coupon Cou;Hin Mi only c:i re;juLsr priced ir-rehsru! i i o l.'i.v ) i, ,.j i; ; i i..!';r.:'i:;::p-"i (.::..';;;:: ::vauj:y umjy .y 0 'it Scott wp This colorful crowd is attending a preppis mixer, intended to parody ths styles characteristics of prcp "pies. However, some see more then clashing colors in their clothing. DTK Scott Sharps -1 - H ! ! '7- By DAN FESPERMAN Aphids in a rose garden. A hair on a butter knife. Wolfpackers in the bleachers. , Nasty images indeed, b-t try this one r on for size: Preppies in Chapel Hill. Ely the dozen. By the score. By the hundreds, even thousands. And multiplying like bacterium on a slide. It's enough to zap the starch right out of a blown-back, hot-combed, triple layered, Zieg-Heil haircut. Or to suck the sheen from an ultra-bright, putrid reek, perma-press pair of,day-glo greenies. Or even wipe the smile off the face of a grinnin', flip-tailed, shirt-sewn, upwardly-mobile 'Zod gator. Enough, in short, to make an alum like me feel that his old school has fallen ill with Creeping Reaganism, blithely sliding downhill on rails greased with the dregs of .Watergate and Jaycee Jamscam. . Yeah, yeah, there were Preppies in my days, too, back a long four years ago. And there were too many of them then as well, at least for my tastes. But on each visit to Chapel Hill since, I've noticed more and more of the homogenous little Fascists crawling around. I don't mean actual prep school graduates. Some of those occasionally achieve individuality once they reach college and shed their old cocoons. And I don't simply mean Greeks, either, though they certainly have a healthy share. . 1 mean the hoity-toity fellows (and women) with their heads stuffed into self-aggrandizing clouds of conformity. "You wearin' plaids? OK, I'll Wear plaids too." "You gonna buy striped belts to match your pants and tops? Yeah, me too." Those guys. . "So big deal, twitface. What's the harm in a few Preppies?" That's the usual reply to babblings such as mine, so I'll answer the question now. ( The harm is to the sanity of the rest of us. We get tired of seeing robots march across the-campus and through our lives. We get tired of self-serving bugheads who graduate with a B.A. degree and go on to a career of glad-handing down at the Chamber of Commerce. ' Because along with each and every Preppie goes the Preppie value system. The system which says, "Hey, Exxon's OK. What's wrong with a little profit " The system whose answer to dissent is "Nuke 'em." 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