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...fulfilled the direst predictions of its critics. A Washington Post story last week reported that many departing Carter officials are having no trouble finding firms willing to quadruple their salaries in order to tap their expertise, despite the revolving-door strictures, which went into effect in 1979. The Reagan team, too, has found that for Cabinet appointees the prestige outweighs the financial burdens. The only person known to have refused a top job solely because of a potential conflict was Clifford Hansen, Reagan's first choice for Interior Secretary, whose family holds grazing rights on federal lands. Such...
...wife Millie (Barbara Barrie) is on her way up to the suite. What follows is a kind of Feydeau farce with one bedroom door. The scene has been directed with dazzling adroitness by Gene Saks, and Jack Weston's portray al of a human pachyderm in direst panic would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Zero Mostel...
Cherished institutions may become shaky and old heroes tarnished, but Americans have always kept their faith in-and looked up to-doctors. Now, however, many people are worried that doctors may refuse to treat them except in direst emergencies. The reason: the soaring cost of malpractice insurance, which the nation's 300,000 physicians must carry in order to stay in practice. The result is that doctors, who feel their incomes jeopardized, have become rebellious. Patients, who see their access to treatment threatened, are increasingly anxious. State legislators, who must satisfy both groups, are bewildered...
...Administration. Observes TIME Economic Correspondent John Berry: "Every committee is behaving as if it thinks that its program is the only one that stands between the American public and total economic disaster." The result has been the introduction of scores of bills, ranging from increased Social Security benefits to Direst...
...puff of smoke. Since Brezhnev vanished from public view on Dec. 24, he has been widely reported to be medically and politically moribund. Some Kremlinologists predicted that if he failed to greet Wilson, who was making his first state visit to Moscow in seven years, that would confirm the direst of long-distance diagnoses. On the eve of the British Prime Minister's visit, the respected Paris daily Le Monde cited "informed Soviet sources" as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a "brutal" relapse from cancer, or, alternatively, cardiovascular disease. Other sources speculated that the party chief had lost...