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...biggest news at Saratoga last week came when Industrialist Henryk de Kwiatkowski announced that his Belmont Stakes winner, Conquistador Cielo, had been syndicated to a group of breeders for $36.4 million, making him the most expensive horse in history. Meanwhile, all week long, a favored few took their reserved seats inside Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and fascinated onlookers gathered before outdoor monitors to view the auctions of untried yearlings for stratospheric sums. In one wild bidding session, a world-record filly price of $2.1 million was paid for a daughter of The Minstrel. After four tense evenings, traders had ponied...
...long day of combat over the budget was behind him, and Ronald Reagan was heading for his retreat, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif., to mix the woodsy labor he loves with cramming for his forthcoming summit meetings in Western Europe. Before he left Washington, the President discussed his trip with TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett and Senior Correspondent John F. Stacks. The President's voice was raspy-the result, he said, of a malfunctioning fireplace that had filled his den with smoke the night before-but he seemed relaxed as he talked about foreign policy...
...Sacramento and Washington-to say nothing of President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo-Republicans could take wry pleasure in speculating about the effects of the Medfly crisis on the Democratic Governor's political ambitions. Farmers began declaring that the state's real plague is "Brown rot." A new poll showed that a stunning 60% of all Californians rated Brown's handling of the situation as poor...
...sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters have no Rancho del Cielo to escape to; and one must wonder if the nation can really be steered from the saddle...
...Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing today, reporters jot down "no news." Still, reporters and photographers are a brave lot and are taking in stride events like wine-tasting excursions to nearby vineyards, when they are not peering down at Rancho del Cielo with binoculars, praying for a sign. None is forthcoming. This is August. The President is on vacation. -By Roger Rosenblatt. Reported by Douglas Brew/Santa Barbara