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...been performing before audiences all his adult life, and he is now playing to the biggest audience on earth. Much as he delights in riding horses on vacations at his ranch near Santa Barbara, he has confessed to friends that he would be bored living there full time?and that goes double for Nancy. Finally, his ego is at least big enough to make him doubt whether any other G.O.P. candidate could carry out his conservative mission equally well, or perhaps even...
...Eastern resort like Sugarbush, in Warren, Vt., is now $25 (slightly less in Western areas). Take your wife and two teen-agers along and that's $100, Daddy, not counting lunch. An overnight, with dinner and breakfast, costs an extra $200. Figure $500 or more for each adult-size person for skis, poles, boots and bindings, and an additional $300 to $500 for bib pants, ski jacket, long Johns, socks and gloves...
When Jackson appeared at the White House on live TV with Lieut. Robert Goodman, Ronald Reagan eyed him with the wary professional respect an adult actor shows around a precocious child who might steal the scene. Jackson had certainly stolen the scene from Mondale. The day Jackson arrived back from Damascus, the CBS Evening News showed Mondale proclaiming: "Today I begin...
...that all-American institution Hollywood. He rose to the presidency largely because he was able to articulate a personal ideological view on television more forcefully than anyone else. Andropov is the consummate Communist Party operative, a nearly faceless toiler in the political establishment of the U.S.S.R. all his adult life, head for 15 years of that quintessentially Soviet organization the KGB, a man who attained power by sophisticated backstage maneuvering in the ingrown, secretive Politburo...
...paid for." Still, the paper will be raffish: the owners seek not so much to cut into the Chronicle's circulation as to catch the eyes of people who do not now read a daily newspaper. Says Director of Marketing Marvin Naftolin: "We are looking for the young adult. The papers here have not been exciting or interesting enough to attract them...