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...worst correspondent the A.P. ever had. Every time someone held up a pie-shaped chart of the state budget I fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight out of an Andy Hardy movie...
Congress has begun to act on those complaints. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Jake Garn of Utah wants to prevent money market funds from offering check-writing privileges; Congressman James Leach of Iowa has introduced a bill that would diminish the funds' appeal by setting reserve requirements on them. The money market funds are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but they, unlike banks, are not obliged to leave up to 12% of their deposits with the Federal Reserve. Such a requirement would increase costs for money market funds and reduce the interest they could...
...PANAMA CANAL TREATY was the first major target on Viguerie's hit-list. While the Republican Party waffled on the treaty in 1978, the New Right organized. It enlisted conservative groups, raised money through direct mail, and flew a "Truth Squad"--including Senators Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) and Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives...
Dear Abby: Is it possible for a man to be in love with two women at the same time? Jake...
...Dear Jake: Yes. And also hazardous...