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...little Steven's dreams were different. He dreamed of telling the stories of his strange land-wonderful tales of his home and his school, his parents and especially his friends-and making them shine like new. So every night he would tiptoe outside his ranch-style house and make a wish on the brightest star that he could see in the suburban sky. Over and over he would whisper, "Help me tell the story...
...Yellow Rose (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m.). That old patriarch Wade Champion, he sired more boys than Ibn Saud put together: Roy (David Soul), who runs the Yellow Rose ranch; Quisto (Edward Albert), who wants to put oil derricks on the grazing land; and now Chance (Sam Elliott), fresh from a seven-year stretch for murder one. The women, too, can be hard as a Texas dirt road and twice as dangerous: Grace McKenzie (a sizzling Susan Anspach), the cook, serves up more than biscuits, and Colleen Champion (a restored Cybill Shepherd) looks ready to make trouble with every male...
...with a delicate diplomatic problem: how to respond with appropriate indignation without imposing sanctions that would backfire. Counseled by Secretary of State George Shultz, who coolly and competently took charge, Reagan laid down the line even before he returned to Washington on Sept. 2 from a vacation at his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif. Said the President to National Security Adviser William Clark: "We have to guard against overreaction." Though Clark had been emerging as a hard-line architect of American foreign policy, he acted only as the "honest broker" in the meetings that shaped the U.S. response, collecting ideas...
...example) and achieve a certain cachet of simultaneous egalitarianism and chic. Then too, there is what might be called the ostentatious plainstyle. In West Texas, for example, extremely wealthy ranchers, their oil wells serenely pumping dollars out of the range day and night, sometimes live in willfully ordinary ranch houses and get around in pickups...
Among those cheering the astronauts on was vacationing President Reagan, who placed a televised phone call from his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif, to the orbiting crew. Reagan, whose budget and hiring policies have drawn sharp criticism from black leaders, included a special message of congratulations for Bluford. Said the President: "You, I think, are paving the way for many others, and you are making it plain we are in an era of brotherhood here in our land." It was Commander Truly who thanked Reagan on behalf of all the crew members. Said Truly: "We appreciate your taking time...