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...precedent he and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber set with Superstar and Evita, Rice has released an "original cast album" of his latest pop opera before there was ever a show. The Chess set thus functions as an out-of-town tryout, a promotional gambit and a thumpingly successful fund raiser--so much so that Rice, Andersson and Ulvaeus will be providing most of the (pounds)1 million capital needed this fall when Chess boards the London stage. Already, the West End theaterati smell a hit. As Rice happily notes, "We've been offered financing, theaters, charity opening nights--dukes, duchesses...
...them. "I kinda got to go along with David Stockman," said Mark Boege, 52, who grows walnuts and almonds. "I don't know why the Government has to bail us out. Besides, it seems like every time Government comes in, it makes things worse." Jim Vella, 51, an almond raiser whose wife, Clarice, 41, had to take a supermarket check-out job to help out, agreed. "Look at what Government did to those guys in the Midwest. They've been getting subsidies for years and they're in terrible shape." But what should be done? "What we need...
When Ronald Reagan decided to ask Donald Regan to serve as Treasury Secretary, the President-elect knew his choice only by reputation, as a Wall Street stockbroker and G.O.P. fund raiser. At the start of their first telephone conversation, Reagan made the mistake of pronouncing Regan's name exactly like his own. "It's Ree-gan," corrected the just invited Cabinet official. Apologized his about-to-be boss: "I guess I'll have to learn to pronounce it properly...
...difference between Sunday's hair-raiser and last night's sporty performance proved to be more consistency early on from the back court, although several passes between Ferry and point guards Pat Smith and Keith Webuier were picked off in UNH's attempt at a rally in the closing minutes...
...says, "but I'm not a nut about it." During the campaign he was an indiscriminate cheerleader for his boss. As Bush said last week, "I am for Mr. Reagan-blindly." He became irritated whenever reporters suggested that he and Reagan were in disagreement. An effective fund raiser (since becoming Vice President, his personal and mail appeals have brought the G.O.P. some $42.6 million), Bush appeared in 32 states in the past two months...