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That, of course, leaves amiable Cecil Andrus in the unenviable position of the Government's main enforcer-caught between the letter of the law and the anger of Western farmers. As a former Governor of Idaho, where a middling potato farm can cover 580 acres, Andrus would ike to see the law changed. "We may ask Congress to amend the language of the 1902 act," Andrus told TIME last week, "but basically the true family farmer has nothing to worry about...
...York City, number no more than 20. They include such well-known investment houses as Salomon Brothers; Bache Halsey Stuart; Goldman, Sachs; and Lehman Brothers, which make arbitrage purchases for their own accounts, on behalf of wealthy clients, or both. There are also a few individual operators, ike Ivan Boesky, a lawyer, accountant, and security analyst. He set up his own firm two years ago to deal exclusively in arbitrage, and boasts that he works 18 hours a day at the game. Boesky, an immaculate dresser and a devotee of squash who once taught English literature in Iran, made...
...course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world, and for a spell that...
...their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely on a par with the Watergate-related crimes of the Nixon White House...
After 17 years of gigs with Husband Ike, Tina Turner is divorced and gyrating alone. The "Acid Queen" has added some soft ballads to her repertory and toned down her husky voice. "The ears get a chance to rest a little bit," says Tina, 37. When she tried out her new sound in Las Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there -in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there...