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While the Bruins couldn't stop Trout inside, it seems nobody can stop freshman guard David Bernard from outside. The Southern Californian set his second career high of the weekend, eclipsing his 12-point showing Friday against Yale with 15 points Saturday night. Also contributing to the Harvard cause was Bob Ferry who hit five for nine from the floor...
...other war areas. The group proved to be totally out of its depth too when meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who chided his visitors schoolmarmishly for being "taken in" by Arafat. Begin asked McCloskey to point to the West Bank on an unmarked map. The nonplused Californian was unable to do so. Nor did McCloskey improve his standing in Israeli eyes when, in a CBS-TV interview after the meeting, he said that Begin had claimed the Israelis' right to "destroy Beirut even though they kill ten Lebanese and five Palestinians for every Palestinian soldier." Furious, Begin...
Theories about political influence are not always tidy, however. Within the White House, James Baker, a Texan, is as important as any of the aides. Reagan's total Cabinet tilts, 8 to 5, east of the Mississippi River. Mike Deaver, who is Baker's deputy and a Californian, contends that the Reagan White House cannot be measured so much for its West Coast flavor as for the taste of Ronald Reagan. With the departure of Haig, those men closest to Reagan all have a special loyalty to him and fit his style...
...Gold Coast does not have smog, or terrorists, or a socialist government. Real estate prices are not out of sight. So, as Maggy Scherer, a third-generation Californian, who with her husband Allan a few years ago sold their Beverly Hills home to move their 36 ponies to a rustic compound called La Chacra (latino Spanish for Little Farm), points out: "People are leaving France. They're leaving Italy. This is the place." Some concede that cosmopolitanism can go too far. When the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner before a recent match, one woman demanded loudly: "Whose...
This insider's pragmatism makes Baker a perfect complement to the doctrinaire crusader in the White House. "I'm the President's point man here," Baker says. He and Reagan first became friends in 1976, when the Californian was campaigning in Tennessee for the Republican nomination. Although Baker supported Gerald Ford, he invited Reagan to his Huntsville home for dinner. It was a grace note that Reagan remembered, and a relaxed relationship blossomed...