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...under Walter Heller, who advised Kennedy and Johnson and devised the very successful tax cut of 1964. Gardner Ackley, Heller's successor, recalls meeting with Johnson as often as three times a day. On occasion they talked economics while rambling around in a Jeep on L.B.J.'s ranch...
...life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York's gang wars...
...friends and supporters, about 50,000 more than last year. The Reagans apparently acquired some new friends on the road to the President's recent 49-state electoral triumph. The First Couple have even decided on a gift for each other: a new pickup truck for the ranch. It may have been the President's second choice, actually. Asked by reporters what he wanted from Santa Claus, he responded, "Minnesota would have been nice...
...there to illustrate A Day in the Life of Hawaii (Workman; 221 pages; $40). Fanning out through the islands on Friday, Dec. 2, 1983, the cameramen, including Eddie Adams, Gordon Parks and Douglas Kirkland, visited such disparate sites as a de livery room of a hospital on Oahu, the ranch country of the Big Island, a Japanese cemetery near Honolulu and the crest of dormant Haleakala volcano on Maui. The resulting kaleidoscope of scenery and characters, natives and haoles, shows an undiscovered country that, paradoxically, seems to grow more appealing as it becomes more familiar...
...White House is deceptively calm, its boss off on his California ranch gathering strength by clearing brush and repairing fences. Nobody will know for certain the shape of his trillion-dollar budget until he hears the options and decides. Predicting Reagan's course is hazardous...