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...task will be even more difficult now that the man most dedicated to the cause will no longer be involved. Stockman was the last of the pragmatic group at the White House that placed top priority on the deficit danger. Yet despite his intense zeal on the subject, he was able to discuss it with a sense of humor last week. "I would like to take the deficit with me," cracked Stockman at one of the White House meetings, "but at Salomon Brothers we finance half of it anyway." --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Sam Allis and Christopher...
...major danger facing King these days seems to be spreading himself too thin. Along with his two nightly talk shows, he is host of a worldwide call-in program on the Voice of America, writes a weekly column for USA Today and does color commentary for a regional cable sports network. To lighten the load a bit, King has cut his Mutual show from five to four hours a night. That means he can usually get to bed by 4:30 a.m. at the Arlington, Va., condominium he shares with his daughter Chaia, 17. (King has been divorced three times...
...some of the owners are in it for fun and games and do not worry too much about making a profit. Admits Corey Busch, executive vice president of the ailing San Francisco Giants: "There's a breaking point coming. Baseball has to be run more as a business." The danger is that the executive boys of summer, with their checkbook recruiting and creative accounting, will make it impossible for professional sports to operate in the black. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York, with other bureaus
...exposed to the country's turbulence in 1960, when he walked the silent streets of Sharpeville hours after 69 blacks were killed by police gunfire. He covered the 1976 riots in Soweto, and in the past several weeks has again dodged township mobs, and a few rocks. But the danger does not deter Hawthorne. "The story is its own magnet," he says. "There are real people living here, black and white, and they have no choice but to coexist in peace or die together...
Jackie Presser once seemed in imminent danger of going the same route as three of the five previous presidents of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: being indicted for a federal crime. But after a three-year investigation of padded-payroll practices in Cleveland's Teamsters Local 507, where Presser, 58, serves as secretary-treasurer, the Justice Department said last week that it had overruled a recommendation by a federal organized-crime strike force in that city and would not prosecute the union boss. Although Presser 's was the only major labor organization to back Ronald Reagan for President...