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Mondale tops fashion list, Carter slips The Morning News, Wilmington, Monday, Jan. 17, 1977 Page 9 Plains' peanut land doesn 't sell for The one-inch land sales are being promoted in a series of advertisements in the Atlanta Constitution, the Washington Post and through direct-mail solicitation as well as being sold to tourists who visit Plains. No pretense is made that one square inch of land ever will have any intrinsic value and the fine print at the bottom of the sales brochures and the advertisements says exactly that. "There's no value to the square inch of land," says Maxine Wiggins, one of the salespersons for the newly formed Plains Realty Co. "The value is in the fact that you have a certificate saying that you own one square inch of peanut land in the town of Plains which is bordered on one side by 'Miss Lillian' Carter's and on one side by President Carter's land," she says.

Miss Lillian is the mother of the President-elect. Actually, the five-acre lot is not in Plains at all but in nearby Web NEW YORK (AP) Vice President-elect Walter P. Mondale has knocked his boss off the "Best Dressed" list, winning the best dressed statesman of 1977 designation from the Fashion Foundation of America. President-elect Carter was named best dressed man in public life of 1976. The foundation said Carter's attire was "suitable for campaigning, but too casual for the presidency." In other best-dressed awards bestowed yesterday, the foundation named New York Mayor Abraham D.

Beame as best dressed in civic affairs. "Unruffled in New York City's money crisis," the foundation said, Beame "cleverly lets miniature gold emblems, such as the peanut and apple do his talking from jacket lapel." Sen. Edward W. Brooke, was designated best dressed in government. He was called "ever coordinated in fashion." Ballet star Rudlof Nureyev was best dressed stage performer, "elegant on and off stage with the trim athletic figure which is a designer's dream." Screen star Paul Newman "personifies the 'macho man' on the screen and brings that same magnetism to his personal, well-tailored dress," the foundation said in naming him best dressed actor for 1977, the category assigned to Burt Reynolds last year.

Sports honors went to jockey Angel Cordero "even more flamboyant off the track than on, with a vast wardrobe of silk and ultra suede suits." Frank Sinatra, "advocate of comfortable dress," was the best dressed entertainer, the only prior winner on the 1977 list. Sinatra was named previously in 1960. Others on this year's "Best Dressed" list: Lowell Thomas, best dressed communicator. Tiffany's president Walter Hov-ing, best dressed in society. Tony Orlando, best dressed television personality.

Eaton-Allen Corp. president Robert Glenn, best dressed businessman. Inter-Continental Hotel Corp. vice president John L.R. Macomb-er, best dressed host.

Those designated best dressed will receive medals and be enrolled in the foundation's Hall of Fashion Fame. ster County where Carter does have a farm. Mrs. Wiggins admits that it wouldn't be possible for anyone to sell a square inch of landany-where in southwest Georgia, where good farmland averages some $600 or so an acre, were it not for Carter's election as President and the interest that has roused. But she said that what the Plains Realty Co.

is doing is no worse exploitation than that of other entrepreneurs here. Grits jokes NEW YORK (AP) Washington humor columnist Art Buch-wald says he has just about run dry of Jimmy Carter jokes for now, but he expects more material to gush forth after the presidentelect takes office. "He said at the beginning of his campaign he'd never lie to us. And any man who says that, I think, will be a very good target," Buch-waldsaid. He was one of three persons interviewed on yesterday during ABC's "Issues and Answers" program.

The topic: political humor in the Carter years. Washington Post feature writer Myra MacPherson said she wanted to get away from the patronizing approach of humor about an 7 H- Tiff Tff 2fV Wfc 5 f'5 7f Dryrnninn af "ni fmi That's right, snow is falling. But it doesn't keep members of the Iceberg fl iy Cll IsUflUy Iota nU Athletic Club from their daily dip at Coney Island Beach, where temperatures yesterday were in the low 20s. (UPI Telephoto) peanuts Were it not for Carter's success, "the people uptown with souvenir shops could not sell a brown peanut and they could not sell the Jimmy Carter hats and the Jimmy Carter T-shirts," she said. Another salesperson, Vicki Stal-vey, who described herself as a part-time nurse from Atlanta, was asked how sales are going.

"Fantastic," she replied. "I think it's going to go just like wildfire. In a year's time there's no telling how much money we can make off of it." fade; satire impending Southern takeover of Washington. "I'm getting awfully tired of the grits-at-state-dinner-level of humor about these people," she said. "There's a certain element of provincialism when a national reporter asked Rosalynn Carter whether she wanted to be Melanie or Scarlett (characters in 'Gone With the Wind').

This is a woman who wants to be another Eleanor Roosevelt." "We've done all the Southern jokes on Carter," Buchwald added, "and now we have to go on to something else. Humor depends on what happens to me it's funny that the women expected Carter to keep his campaign promises. I think that's funny be today and tonight. Winds west or northwesterly at 15 to 25 m.p.h. Southern New Jersey: Extremely cold through tomorrow.

Partly cloudy and windy today, highs in the teens. Fair today and tomorrow. Lows tonight from 0 to 10 degrees. High tomorrow in the teens. Probability of snow is 20 per cent today and tonight.

Winds west to northwest increasing to 15 to 25 m.p.h. today. Delaware Bay: Mostly northwest winds at 15 to 30 m.p.h. decreasing to 10 to 20 m.p.h. tonight.

Partly cloudy today and tonight. Visibility is five miles or more. Little wave action due to considerable ice. Chesapeake Bay: Northwesterly winds at 20 to 30 mph, diminish today's forecast lyw.jojo jo Showers Stationary Occluded ff'W Jf 1 MM" 4 L. Ram r-nM Warm PLAINS, Ga.

(AP) The businessmen who bought $3,000 worth of peanut land next to Presidentelect Carter's farm are trying to imake their five acPes produce a cash yield of $344,995,200 by selling it for $11 a square inch. Meanwhile, the town of Plains, strapped for funds to deal with an ever-mounting tide of tourists, is considering seriously selling honorary citizenships for $4.95. It was learned that Carter, for one, opposes the idea. Russian sees day of doom for Triangle Agence France-Presse HAVANA Tuesday may be a day of great danger for ships or planes venturing into the "Bermuda Triangle," an area of the Atlantic between Florida, Puerto Rico and the Bermudas where more than 100 ships and a score of planes have gone down since 1945. On Tuesday, the sun, the moon and the earth will be in the same positions as at the times of the previously recorded disasters in the triangle.

Warnings of danger were issued here not by some astrologer but in a study made by a Soviet mathematical physicist, A. Yelkin of the Moscow Engineering Institute. He stressed that it was only a hypothesis based on observation, without any scientific proof or explanation. In an interview with the Soviet news agency Novosti, the scientist said that in going over data, he noticed a certain regularity in the times craft disappeared "related to the stars, astronomical phenomena and specifically the position of the earth, the moon and the sun." This pattern suggested that the shipwrecks and plane crashes had something to do with magnetic anomalies caused by the position of the heavenly bodies, he said. people in Paul Gibson Jr.

has an nounced his resignation as New York's deputy mayor and plans to return to an executive post at American Airlines. Gibson, 49, took a leave of absence to serve as the city's first black deputy Gibson mayor under Mayor Abraham Beame. The $25,000 Enrico Fermi Award was presented Friday to Dr. William L. Russell, an international authority on the genetic effects of radiation in mammals.

Russell was born in England but became an American citizen in 1936, shortly after receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago. The Fermi Award dates to 1954 when Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who achieved the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear chain reaction, received the honor, presented by the Energy Research and Development Administration in Washington. The order of Lenin was presented in Moscow Friday to Luis Corvalan, the Chilean Communist party leader who was released from a prison in Chile last month in exchange for a Soviet dissident who has left Russia. The decoration was presented by President Nikolai Podgorny of the Soviet Union. In a letter read at all Sunday masses in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Ter-rence Cardinal Cooke called for a amendment to prohibit abortion.

"In this past year, more than one mil Cooke lion children have been killed by abortion in the United States," Cardinal Cooke said. weather: cold, bitterly the news- "The law of our land has denied unborn children their basic right to life." The cardinal said the government should not pay for abortions for the poor simply because it might be more expensive for society to allow children of the poor to be born. Jimmy Carter's zeal for politics comes from his maternal grandfather, James Jackson Gordy, says Alton Carter, the Presidentelect's uncle. "I'll tell you where I think Jimmy got his politics," Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. "Lillian's daddy his mother's daddy was nothing but a politician.

"Anything he did, if politics was in it, he was in hog heaven." Gordy, called Jim Jack, was a familiar figure at the state capital. Gordy was postmaster at Richland, federal revenue agent during prohibition and deputy federal marshal, all political jobs. "If you wanted to be elected, you'd go to Jim Jack and give him a little money to get in behind and help you," said Alton Carter. "Or if he wanted to help you for nothing, why, he could always do it." Gordy died in 1948 at age 85. Actress Sally Struthers looks a bit out of character from her "Gloria" on "All in the Family," as she strikes a "Fonz pose" from "Happy Days." She had just won the shirt playing against an electronic video game as she took part in a fund-raising drive in Hollywood for the nonsecta-rian Christian Children's Fund.

(UPI Telephoto) lives on cause no one has in the past and no one will in the future. "I think what we could do right now is to give Carter amnesty forget everything that he said during the campaign and let's start fresh." This prompted a serious note from the third panelist, Barbara Mikulski, a peppery freshman Democrat from Maryland. "I'm against unconditional amnesty," she said. "At the Democratic convention Jimmy Carter told women that he wanted to be to the women's movement what Lyndon Johnson had been to the black community in the civil rights effort. And then along came this transition team and it's been a shock to me about the way they've recruited and let us down." cold ing by late today or tonight.

Fair today and tonight. Visibility over five miles. Minor wave action due to considerable ice. Highest temperature yesterday: 24 degrees; lowest: 7 degrees. Highest humidity yesterday: 100 per cent; lowest: 57 per cent.

Precipitation in 24 hours ending at 8 p.m.: .03 liquid, 610 inches of snow. Sun rises today at 7:21 a.m. and sets at 5:05 p.m. Here It the afternoon weather In key cltle yesterday: Atlanta 30 clear, Boston 27 snow. Buffalo 2 snow, Caribou 9 partly cloudy, Charleston, C.

55 clear, Chicago -11 clear, Cincinnati -10 partly cloudy, Cleveland -4 clear, Detroit 5 fair, Indianapolis -12 clear, Knoxvllle 18 fair, Miami 68 rain, Nashville 10 fair, New Orleans 41 cloudy. New York 23 snow, Philadelphia 20 snow, Pittsburgh -2 snow, Ichmond 28 snow, Bismarck -1 3 cloudy, Denver 44 fair, Des Moines -6 fair, Fort Worth 27 clear, Kansas City -6 clear, Los Angeles 67 clear, Minneapolis' St. Paul -13 clear, Phoenix 57 clear. Salt Lake City 39 cloudy, San Diego 43 fair, San Francisco 43 hue, Seattle 47 rain, Montreal -15 sunny and Toronto -14 sunny. Fig ores show high temperatures Data from National Wtsttw Semot A petition for divorce from his wife of 35 years has been filed by Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Fran cisco.

He asked the court that no alimony be granted Angelina Gere-ro Alioto, and that the court divide their property as it saw fit. The Mrs. Alioto petition was the latest round in a series of dissolution-of-marriage proceedings begun in February 1975 by Mrs. Alioto. The couple reconciled shortly afterward, and her petition was dropped.

Then Mrs. Alioto revived the petition when the couple separated again in December 1975. Last October she again asked the court to drop the petition after there were reports that Alioto wanted to marry Kathleen Sullivan, of Boston. The Aliotos have six children. Muhammad Ali says he's trying to get the Beatles back together for a benefit that would pay for "feeding and clothing the poor children of the world," according to the New York Daily News.

The world heavyweight boxing champ says he is trying to raise $200 million to establish a permenent international help agency. "I hope to impress them with the idea that this is money to help people all over the world. All races love the Beatles. I love the music. I used to train to their music." Dame Margot Fonteyn, the British ballet star, has been named the recipient of the Shakespeare 1977 prize of the Hamburg-based F.V.S.

Foundation. Amounting to about the prize has never before gone to a dancer. The Fonteyn foundation, a private organization devoted to the arts, will present the prize to Dame Margot in ceremonies at Hamburg city hall on July 23. Greater Wilmington and vicinity: Bitterly cold and windy today. High in the mid-teens.

Fair and very cold tonight, low from 0 to 5 degrees. Increasing cloudiness and continued cold tomorrow, chance of snow by evening. High tomorrow in the low to mid-20s. Chance of precipitation is 10 per cent today and tonight. Winds northwesterly at 10 to 30 m.p.h.

and gusty. Kent and Sussex Counties: Bitterly cold and windy today. High in the mid-teens. Fair and very cold tonight, low from 0 to 5 degrees. Increasing cloudiness and continued cold tomorrow, chance of snow by evening.

High tomorrow in the low to mid-20s. Chance of precipitation is 10 per cent today and tonight. Winds northwesterly at 10 to 30 m.p.h. and gusty. Southeastern Pennsylvania: Extremely cold today.

Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. High today in the teens. Low tonight from 0 to 5 degrees. Precipitation probability is 20 per cent TIDES AT MARINE TERMINAL High Low TodavA.M 10:01 4:38 Today P.M 10:29 5:22 HIGH TIDES TODAY A.M. P.M.

Indian Rlvtf Inlat (brldn) 6 42 Rehobotti Beach 5:33 CaoeHenlopefi to Breakwater Harbor MUpllllon River 6 54 7:20 Bowars Beach 719 7:43 Woodland Beach 7:55 8:23 Reedy Point 9:36 NewCattle 9:40 10:06 Baltimore 4: 16 5:27 Kentlalend 3:43 Chesapeake City 7:55 8:23 SPm icV 'W'M.