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...year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
...centerpiece of Forbes' campaign is the crowd-pleasing 17% flat tax for individuals and businesses. To voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, this idea has become his identity. Forbes is no longer the mild-mannered son of that balloon-flying, motorcycle-riding, Elizabeth Taylor-escorting millionaire; he's the Flat Tax Man. At the Budweiser booth at a trade show in Manchester, New Hampshire, a fellow gripping a cold one shouted at Forbes, "Hey, I saw you on TV this morning with the flat tax!" Notes Joel Slemrod, a tax expert who teaches at the University of Michigan Business School...
...council should have realized that a silly project like "Spirit Week" would go over like a lead balloon on this campus. It should not have squandered our precious money and its puny reserve of political capital on something it might have anticipated would end up in its expansive warehouse of failures...
RECOVERING. THOMAS KEAN, 60, former G.O.P. Governor of New Jersey; from a balloon angioplasty to reopen a blocked artery; in Morristown, New Jersey. After Kean complained of chest pains, doctors sped the popular two termer into the operating room after determining he was dangerously close to a heart attack...
...will house straw-poll delegates to run the 15-minute Dole video on their in-house television systems. Explains Mike Murphy, Alexander's senior campaign consultant: "They've all told [Scott] Reed, 'Don't mess up again.' So everybody who walks into Scott's office says, 'How about free balloon rides at five grand? Sign here.'" After all, says Murphy, "If Dole loses, nobody is going to remember that Reed saved twenty grand." Reed put it this way: "We're an aggressive campaign...