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...when Bush arrived to rent a couple of videos, leading a 15-car motorcade of security and media people. "For a moment I thought my place was on fire," Ward recalls. "It reminded me of the Monty Python movie where the kid opens the bedroom window and sees a lawn full . of people. It's ridiculous for the press to follow Bush around to see what he buys. Renting Broadcast News is not a national policy decision...
...acre estate from a Memphis physician for about $100,000 in 1957. From the first, it was a lively home base for the Presley clan. Elvis rode his horse down to the gates to chat with fans and had fireworks fights with his buddies and relatives on the lawn. Today, whether they knew him or not, everyone on Graceland's staff, which grows to 450 during the summer season, refers to the singer by his first name. Elvis' septuagenarian uncle, Vester Presley, who once manned the gates, promotes his Southern cookbook in the record store called...
...know what is going on," says an employee. "Some of us are going to lose our jobs, but we don't know who, or where." Feelings of helplessness were hardly confined to the South. Said a 15-year employee at an RJR Nabisco cookie plant in Fair Lawn, N.J.: "When you're at the bottom of the ladder and you got money men at the top, you take it one day at a time...
...effect, the White House has become a small but complete city. Gardener Irvin Williams reports that a new lawn weathered the hot spell and is flourishing. Wood ducks are in the trees, mallards on the fountain pond, 40 or so other species of birds round about. Squirrels, lured by Reagan's generous dispensation of acorns, are too numerous to count...
Yesterday, the ITT wall and lawn equipment near the wooden fence were still covered with soot. But the fire apparantly did not extend through the entire storage center since most of the fence is metal chain link...