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...cigars have been Washington landmarks since 1979, when President Carter named him Federal Reserve Board chairman and gave him an urgent mandate to fight inflation. Volcker, 55, has carried that out with a zeal that has made him conspicuous in a town that bends easily before political winds. Says Jake Garn, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee: "Sometimes he seems to be the only person in the country capable of sticking to an economic policy." More than a few observers call Volcker the second most powerful man in Washington...
...Jake J. Stevens '86, chairman of the Council's Communication and Finance Committee, said yesterday that the council's limited budget prevented it from subsidizing the entire $460 necessary to finance a third issue of The Weather...
Sting II does adapt from the original and central characters of the criminal hero. Jake Hooker (Mac Davis), and his has-been mentor, Fargo Gondorff (Jackie Gleason). The first gag sets the tone of the movie, when Hooker rushes down to visit Gondorff in what had been described as "a big house with a yard," but is actually a state prison, It never improves...
Black American folklore is the source of Margot Zemach's Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). Jake, a laborer, lives near a town appropriately called Hard Times. Honeybunch is a mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that...
Elsewhere in the South Seas of the '30s, TV viewers will come upon Jake Cutter, mainstay of the Tales of the Gold Monkey (ABC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), who is not as burly as Buck, and is subject to occasional bouts of malaria besides. A hard-times flyboy with a beat-up leather jacket and a Terry and the Pirates cap, Cutter finds himself enmeshed, often to his considerable chagrin, in a variety of exotic adventures having to do with lost treasures and old legends. Cutter, attractively played by Stephen Collins, darts around in a wreck of a seaplane...