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...still perform their functions." Bureaucrats also quail at the threat of having to leave Washington. Leach would like to rusticate Energy to Colorado, Agriculture to Iowa, coincidentally Leach's home state. Says he: "This would give bureaucrats the opportunity to live under the rules they write and see firsthand the too often counterproductive efforts of a well-meaning Uncle Sam." Could be. But there is not much chance of the bureaucracy budging that far, not even to appease the most hated man in Washington...
Church's overview of the continuing frustrations and the emerging self-confidence of homosexuals today is based on dozens of interviews by TIME correspondents with legislators, educators, executives, clergy and other articulate members of the growing "gay" minority, and on the correspondents' firsthand observation of their lifestyle, from San Francisco's Castro Street to New York City's Christopher Street, from Macon, Ga., to Mankato, Minn. In exploring the new book's findings, Ruth Galvin learned from Masters and Johnson that gays and straights have more in common than perhaps most people thought. Says...
Casting about for an expert to lecture its investigators on white-collar crime. California's department of justice hired a man with firsthand experience: Joseph L. Bentz Jr., who had avoided prosecution for his part in embezzling millions by agreeing to testify for the authorities. By all accounts, Bentz, 44, was an excellent instructor. "He was fascinating," recalls Roy G. Leyrer, who ran the program. "He was very willing to discuss all aspects of the con game. I wish I could get a few more guys like him. Policemen and other investigators came from all over the country...
...signs of his 74 years, Teng rushed through a formidable schedule of official and semiofficial events. He talked for 5½ hours with Carter, dined at the White House, lunched with Senators and U.S. reporters, sampled American culture at the Kennedy Center and barnstormed across the country, getting a firsthand look along the way at American enterprise: a Ford plant near...
...German mark and 26% against both the yen and Swiss franc. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber. "The U.S. this year paid a heavy price to learn something about world money markets. One of the tragedies is that there was nobody in the Treasury Department with any firsthand experience of how the markets worked-and the markets knew that...