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...deal with right now. There were a couple of wildlife representatives at the meeting, and at one point, during a discussion about predators, Watt made no effort to conceal his strong feelings that coyotes should be largely killed off. "Maybe we can get Mrs. Reagan to wear a coyote coat," he said in a clumsy effort at a joke, noting that trappers and bounty hunters would get more business. The wildlife men winced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...failed his first bar exam. When he walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Fastest Gun in the West | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago wore a green mink coat as she led that city's annual parade, which tied with St. Paul, Minn, as the second-largest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Celebrates St. Pat's Day | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...Hotel, a foreign businessman and a middle-ranking government official are talking quietly in a corner. Midway through the conversation, the foreigner casually places an envelope on a chair next to him. When the foreigner rises to leave, the envelope remains behind. The government official slips it into his coat pocket a few minutes later and departs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Profits in Big Bribery | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...fashioned lady-and-the-truck-driver romance. Can sophisticated Jadine and her black diamond in the rough make it, even after he has a haircut and borrows a Hickey Freeman suit? Or will Ryk, a rich somebody, lure her back to Paris by sending her a sealskin coat she cannot wear in the tropics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Diamond | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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