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...bits of data that are automatically collected and stored by computers, the chilling conclusion became more and more inescapable, and they notified Washington. Finally, at 7:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese put in an urgent call to Ronald Reagan, who was vacationing at his ranch in the hills near Santa Barbara, Calif. The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner that had strayed over Soviet territory, said Meese, had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Air Lines Flight 007 had been cold-bloodedly blasted out of the skies by a missile-firing Soviet interceptor, with...
Admittedly William Clark does not resemble any of his predecessors as National Security Adviser. Clark's honesty, selflessness and devotion to the President make him unique. I am tempted to send him a portable barbecue, hoping it will satisfy his yearning for his ranch and keep him on the job in Washington...
After this return visit, it seems clear that when the map of Television Land is drawn, the eight-room Loud ranch house will be as much a landmark " as the Cleaver family's two-story white colonial. Just as the homogenized family sitcoms of the '50s became emblems of that "decade, the Loud family's home movies may be the veristic vision of the polarized family of the '70s. So stay tuned, video voyeurs, for the next installment of the Loud saga. Say in ten years, when the prospective grandchildren are old enough to be interviewed...
...small talk. He speaks slowly and has a deliberate gait, and somehow seems out of place in fast-talking Washington. His features often convey puzzled concentration, and he likes to foster the idea that he yearns to return to raise Herefords and barley on his 888-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif, which is being run by his three oldest sons. Says one friend: "The aw-shucks style is a little...
...English at the University of Arizona. "I was sliding into despair. I might have thrown in the towel," she says. "Teaching just didn't give me the time I need for writing." Silko, who is a Laguna Pueblo Indian, now lives with her two sons on a small ranch in the Tucson Mountains. She has finished a screenplay, intended for public television, that is based on an Indian fable about an encounter with evil. She also reports "good progress" on her second novel, which retells the history of the Western Hemisphere from an Indian perspective. Her first novel, Ceremony...