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With his flinty stare, red hair, high collar and striped trousers, Calvin Coolidge is now an established presence in the Cabinet Room, a quiet patron of supply-side economics. He is on the wall in oils, along with Lincoln and Eisenhower. When Coolidge appeared on the morning of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration, some of the staff members were startled. "There's been an error," suggested one aide, believing a workman had mistaken the Vermonter for Jefferson or maybe McKinley. No, the report came back, the President wants Coolidge, the cutter of taxes and debt, the man who squandered...
Antiunion sentiment seems to be everywhere, and not just among white-collar suburbanites. A symptom of this was the public support President Reagan got when he fired 11,500 air-traffic controllers who struck illegally in August. Says Victor Gotbaum, head of New York City's largest (109,000 members) public employee union and one of organized labor's most powerful voices: "Not even Eisenhower or Richard Nixon did that...
...series from 1965 to 1974. Instead, the bureau wants the new show to stress how much crook catching has changed. Said Young: "We thought it would be an excellent way to tell people about the kinds of cases we're working on today [notably political corruption, white-collar fraud and organized crime] and to let people see there are women in the FBI, there are blacks in the FBI. This, we hope, would go a long way as a recruiting tool. It also is a way of telling people what they're getting for their tax dollar...
Lundgren sets out with the family Airedale, a dim, stubborn beast named Hudley who drinks by submerging his head and opening his mouth. An uncertain backwoods cunning helps the make-believe p.i. collar the lumber rustlers, so it's on to Florida to deal with Dr. Rabun's wife...
...this growing spirit of saving and restoring. Not only does the country sometimes seem caught in a sweet haze of nostalgia and playfulness, it also seems to be savoring its history on a small, even cozy scale. In Youngstown, Ohio, for example, in what appears to be one blue-collar community's search for identity, George Segal's life-size bronze of two steelworkers has been installed in a plaza; members of the building-trades union enhanced the artwork by erecting a real furnace as background...