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...story brick house, the walls of which he thumps to test their soundness. Zhevakin (Randall Duk Kim) is a diminutive ex-naval officer who dreams of duplicating the girls of Sicily with their "rosebud mouths" and cushiony flesh. Then there is a snob of an ex-infantry officer, Anuchkin (Jake Dengel), who, though devoid of social graces himself, insists that any bride of his must speak French...
Back in 1976, Jake Butcher, who may well be Tennessee's next Governor, loaned his friend and fellow banker Bert Lance $443,000 for some of Lance's elaborate financial deals in Georgia. Some wags are now suggesting that Butcher's loan should be classified as an educational expense, so closely has the Tennessee Democrat imitated Lance, both in his banking practices and his ability to get close to Jimmy Carter...
Butcher claims that he is worth $8.3 million. His fortune is based on a 14-bank family empire that was built on heavy borrowing. At the beginning of the campaign, he put his holdings into two trusts that are managed by his brother, C.H. Butcher. To help Jake meet interest obligations that will exceed his $50,000 salary as Governor by about $200,000 a year, Brother C.H. offered to take care of the debt service and to give him an additional $100,000 each year he serves as Governor. Jake quickly declined the offer, lamely insisting that his brother...
Increasingly, voters seem to be turning to relatively obscure businessmen to run state governments. A variety of millionaires won victories in this year's gubernatorial primaries: Democrats Robert Graham in Florida and Jake Butcher in Tennessee; Republicans William Clements in Texas and Jack Eckerd in Florida. "I am not a lawyer," boasts ex-Wall Streeter Charles ("Pug") Ravenel, who is running against veteran Republican Senator Strom Thurmond in South Carolina. Candidates who have never met a payroll, Ravenel argues, are not equipped to balance budgets. "I think we have a crisis of management in government. To solve public problems...
...margin, the Senate rejected Sen. Jake Garn's (R-Utah) proposal to couple an additional 39-month ratification period with an opportunity for ratifying states to cancel their vote...