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...doubt that Reagan and the First Lady could get away for a relaxing Saturday and Sunday at Camp David. As the President and Nancy were walking from the helicopter into the hospital Friday afternoon, a reporter called out, "How do you feel?" Reagan spread his arms and cried, "Fine...
...departure the President is losing the man most responsible for translating into reality his vision of a shrunken domestic role for the Federal Government and the last powerful crusader for drastic measures to reduce the deficit. Stockman combined an instinctive feel for fiscal policy, an unmatched understanding of budgetary fine print and a sharp sense of legislative tactics. His gutsy advocacy of severe cuts in politically sacred programs, ranging from school lunches to farm subsidies to military pensions, was often labeled draconian and infuriated members of both parties. Also unsettling, particularly to the President, was the blunt and brilliant Budget...
Similar dilemmas are likely to crop up at soda fountains and groceries. "It's going to be a problem with so many brands," concedes Ralph Lucas, owner of Lucas Fine Food in Cincinnati. "We have to have more shelf space. We'll cram them in sideways, I guess." The overflow, he added, will pile up in stock rooms...
That strength will be the first to desert him as he grows up. It is in fact already a potential weakness. "A dickschädel, " his coach Günther Bosch calls him, meaning he is, not to put too fine a point on it, pigheaded. That imparts to his game its never-say-die spirit, but may also interfere with improving it physically and tactically. Ion Tiriac, his other mentor, insists Becker is too slow afoot but has trouble imposing on him a corrective training regimen. "He's very stubborn. You have to convince him of everything." In fact, it took...
...serial and the film noir melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build the camaraderie that an old cowhand like Gabby Hayes exuded with no sweat. Agreeable but never compelling, Silverado proves it takes more than love of the western to make a good one. Maybe...