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Elizabeth Dole did not have to lobby very hard for the $80,100-a-year Transportation post, a job that would make her the first woman to head a Cabinet agency in the Reagan Administration and the seventh in U.S. history. She has earned high marks in the White House for loyalty, competence and a toughness swathed in Southern charm. But her main advantage was being a woman in an Administration that is desperate to raise the visibility of women and close its notorious gender...
Lewis is unlikely to feel underused in the future. Last week he resigned his $69,630-a-year post as Transportation Secretary, making him the third official to leave the President's original Cabinet (the other two: Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Energy Secretary James Edwards). On Feb. 1, Lewis will take over as chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Amex Cable Communications, Inc., one of the country's largest cable companies, which has 147 cable systems in 27 states. It is jointly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., and American Express Co. Said Lewis...
...Marbach. He also received a phone call from Reagan, who wanted to put in a good word for Andrews with a Jamac official. "I told him I'd already given him the job in my mind," recalled Marbach. (Andrews will report for work for his new $10,500-a-year truck-loader's position as soon as his knee ligaments, torn during the rescue, are healed.) Three days after the incident, an anonymous donor sent Andrews a $3,000 bank check to wipe out his debts. Andrews has a special sympathy for the blind; his sister lost...
Brazil and Paraguay should be congratulated for building the largest hydroelectric dam in the world [Nov. 15]. But if the dam produces power equivalent to only a "600,000-bbl.-a-year oil well," it is not a very good investment. You obviously mean...
According to some Cheyenne residents, trouble had been brewing in the Jahnke household long before the $38,500-a-year IRS agent was transferred from Phoenix in August 1980. The family virtually isolated itself, and the children were expected to spend most of their free time at home. The parents forbade dating for Deborah, and Maria Jahnke insisted on accompanying her teen-age daughter on outings. Jahnke, a former career Army sergeant, a gun buff and survivalist who stored a large emergency cache of dried foodstuffs in the home, often patrolled his house fondling one of his guns. Lamented...