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...tart recollections of how things really work in the Reagan White House, he is earning about $2,200 an hour. Figuring, that is, that the departing Budget Director is toiling away eight hours every day to produce by his Dec. 1 deadline the blockbuster book for which Harper & Row has just given him a prodigious advance of $2 million plus. A handsome sum indeed, enough to pay about five minutes' worth of the deficit in the Administration's own federal budget for this year. It would have taken Stockman more than 26 years to earn that kind of money...
...says Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row. "We think it will be an extremely important book. There are a lot of people out there who are extremely curious about David Stockman. It's going to be very candid because he is very candid...
...evading income taxes by taking unreported cash advances from a gambling casino that booked his fights; in New York City. King admitted receiving some of the money but claimed that others handled his finances and that they were responsible for failing to report the income. His associate Constance Harper was convicted of three counts of attempted tax evasion. Said King after being acquitted: "Only in America...
Stockman's memoirs, The Triumph of Politics (Harper & Row; $19.50), form a singular document of arrogance. That Washington cannot meet its responsibilities on the budget certainly is true, but Stockman's own failures may have had as much to do with creating the huge federal deficits and the diminished trust in Government economic planning with which we are now burdened...
...York attorney Conrad K. Harper ’62, glass company executive James R. Houghton ’58, and economist Robert D. Reischauer ’63 have the ultimate authority over the University’s divestiture decisions...