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...last Thursday and preparing for major meetings on defense and the budget next week, he will behave like most governments and do essentially nothing. Moreover, he will do it for 28 days, as he rides Jeep and horse about his 688 craggy acres in the Santa Ynez Mountains, his Rancho del Cielo, 2,200 ft. into the cielo, splitting firewood, clearing brush, ogling stars. A pleasant image for the public to dwell on, but it also raises some questions and a bit of a stir: Is so long a holiday fitting and proper for a President, the leader...
...sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters have no Rancho del Cielo to escape to; and one must wonder if the nation can really be steered from the saddle...
...clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing today, reporters jot down "no news." Still, reporters and photographers are a brave lot and are taking in stride events like wine-tasting excursions to nearby vineyards, when they are not peering down at Rancho del Cielo with binoculars, praying for a sign. None is forthcoming. This is August. The President is on vacation. -By Roger Rosenblatt. Reported by Douglas Brew/Santa Barbara
...before he starts this new phase of his term, Reagan will spend 28 days at his beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara, Calif., chopping wood and riding his horse Little Man.* He spent the flight west last Thursday cleaning out his briefcase and has firmly told his aides, who had proposed presidential visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England...
...Norman Taurog, 82, director who won an Oscar for the 1931 Jackie Cooper vehicle Skippy, and also made Boys Town (1938) and a string of lighthearted comedies and musicals between the 1940s and the 1960s, including six with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and nine with Elvis Presley; in Rancho Mirage, Calif...