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Lance, a friend of Carter's for more than 10 years, served as Georgia highway commissioner when Carter was Governor. His country-boy manner masks a shrewd, tough mind. Says New York Republican Barber Conable, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Bert does a lot of talking about being a country boy. You know that kind-when he shakes your hand, you had better count your fingers." Cabinet members who appealed to Carter to restore Lance's cuts in their budgets were rebuffed. Says Jordan, no pushover himself as a bureaucratic infighter...
That change reflects a deep skepticism on Capitol Hill that the rebate plan will pep up demand enough to cut quickly into unemployment. On the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican, likens the passing out of $50 checks to everyone to "dropping money out of airplanes"; New York Democrat Otis Pike grumbles that there must be a better way to create jobs...
...best way to do a story is to get involved," says Jim Hartz, traveling co-host of the Today show. Which is why he allowed A.L. Blanton, mayor of Plains, Ga., to do a Samson number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there was a big hunk of hair...
...famous book The Presidential Character (Prentice-Hall, $10), Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber classifies Chief Executives starting with William Howard Toft according to the energy they put into the job (passive or active) and their feelings about their presidential experience (negative or positive). Based on that, according to Barber, they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President...
Gaunt and hollow-cheeked, he wore a gray-flecked crew cut that was clearly the work of a prison barber, and his be wilderment was plain. "You see," explained exiled Soviet Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "sometimes I still don 't know whether I'm free or still in prison. I've talked about nothing else but my life in prison since I arrived here. " The first political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia...