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...spark for the sale came last November; Dwight L. Stuart, 59, left his post as Carnation president, reportedly after a falling-out with Chairman H. Everett Olson, 77. Stuart, who controls as much as 20% of the firm, then decided to start unloading his stock. Rumors began spreading on Wall Street that Carnation was for sale, and by late July, Nestlé Managing Director Helmut Maucher came along with a friendly takeover offer. Meanwhile, investors ran up the price of Carnation stock from about 65 in July to 75½ by the time the deal was announced...
...newly nominated, newly ebullient President Reagan was also eager to tell his story, in this case to Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey. Sidey has had more than 200 interviews with seven incumbents, starting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. "Talking to a President should always be memorable and interesting," says Sidey. "If it isn't, the reporter has a problem, not the President. It never ceases to fascinate me when I come into the presence of a President and realize anew that in a world of 4 billion souls, this man has more power than any other single person. When...
...from Washington, it was clear that Reagan bestrode his party like few candidates before him. Not since 1972, when Richard Nixon faced George McGovern, had G.O.P. strategists been more confident of reviving what Kansas Senator Robert Dole called "an old and honored tradition, the two-term presidency." Not since Dwight Eisenhower's second campaign for the White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings of patriotism and optimism that could only benefit...
...with most citizens, he seems to have established an uncanny rapport, beyond political agreement or disagreement, as if he were a favorite twinkly uncle who happened to make it to the Oval Office. Not since Dwight Eisenhower has the U.S. public felt such fondness for its leader, and not since Franklin Roosevelt has any President seemed quite so relaxed about the job. Reagan's political adversaries concede his special knack for coming across as both engagingly human and larger than life. Says Robert Lent, a regional director of the United Auto Workers: "He looks good and he's an actor...
...need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland's Juha Tiainen, sighed, "It's not the same without the Eastern bloc countries." In the high jump, the celebrities were World Record Holder Zhu Jianhua of China and Dwight Stones of the U.S., but the winner was Dietmar Mögenburg of West Germany. He never missed at any height until everyone else was out and, alone with the bar, he tried raising Zhu's 7-ft. 10-in. mark by a half-inch. Mögenburg...