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ENGAGED. Arthur B. Laffer, 42, University of Southern California economist and author of the controversial supply-side tax curve named after him; and Traci Lynn Hickman, 23, a U.S.C. senior majoring in political science; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The couple met when she had a job in the office of the business-school dean...
...long day of combat over the budget was behind him, and Ronald Reagan was heading for his retreat, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif., to mix the woodsy labor he loves with cramming for his forthcoming summit meetings in Western Europe. Before he left Washington, the President discussed his trip with TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett and Senior Correspondent John F. Stacks. The President's voice was raspy-the result, he said, of a malfunctioning fireplace that had filled his den with smoke the night before-but he seemed relaxed as he talked about foreign policy...
DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool...
...middle one, Jerry Ford, 68, was back at Rancho Mirage in California, excavating fairway divots and making final preparations for the Sept. 18 dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. He too will then take a swing abroad, stopping off first in London for the Bob Hope British Classic golf tournament and then moving on to Sweden, Denmark and Finland. After that? Stay tuned...
...Sacramento and Washington-to say nothing of President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo-Republicans could take wry pleasure in speculating about the effects of the Medfly crisis on the Democratic Governor's political ambitions. Farmers began declaring that the state's real plague is "Brown rot." A new poll showed that a stunning 60% of all Californians rated Brown's handling of the situation as poor...