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When Baker wants to relax from the problems of world finance and politics, he likes to go home to his ranch near San Antonio and go hunting. Says a former Treasury official: "He shoots turkeys, and that takes patience and good stalking." The biggest game Baker now has to bag is the budget deficit...
...even the rich family in Casmalia shares the concerns. Dave Tompkins came to ranch in 1937, after college, and he now has many hundreds of cattle, many hundreds of acres, and oil leases. Mature olive trees and enormous pink roses line the front yard of his splendid hacienda. "Something's wrong," says his wife. Dave nods. "There is something funny going on," he says...
...probably enough to guarantee sweaty palms in a few boardrooms as well as healthy sales. Aiming for spring 1987 publication, Pickens is writing the book with Joe Nocera, a senior editor for Texas Monthly. The two men have some 20 hours of tapes from chats on Pickens' plane, his ranch and elsewhere. The contract is less than the $2 million that Harper & Row is paying David Stockman, the former White House budget chief, for his memoirs, but that is no problem. Says Pickens: "At least it's more than Tip O'Neill is getting." The retiring House Speaker was paid...
...makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes. He allegedly used the remaining $1.4 million for personal expenses and repayment of a loan. All the while, DeLorean and his then wife Model Cristina Ferrare enjoyed a lavish life-style, which included a 25-room mansion in Bedminster, N.J., a 48-acre ranch in San Diego County and a 20-room apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking New York City's Central Park...
...assassination attempt" in 1982. Rajneesh also suggested that misdeeds at the commune were responsible for a 1984 outbreak of salmonella in that area. State health officials dismiss the allegation. Other charges followed: Sheela and her cohort had dug a secret escape tunnel under the commune's 64,000-acre ranch and had bugged numerous residents' quarters, including the guru...