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...Santa Ynez Mountains, looking for photo opportunities at the adobe ranch buildings three miles distant that serve as Ronald Reagan's Western White House. But thick swirls of morning fog and shimmering waves of afternoon heat obscure their camera view, and the subject stays half hidden in the shade...
...During the 1970s," says Calvin Beale, chief of population research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "every Sunbelt state had a rate of population growth that was higher than the U.S. as a whole." Some of the Sunbelt, however, is now in the shade; in the 1980s, population growth in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky has been lower than in the U.S. as a whole...
...space of four days last week, the country's best and worst golfers were positively identified, although for a time at the U.S. Open it appeared that the two might be the same person. To those who find the Open a shade too diabolical even for golf, the United States Golf Association's Sandy Tatum is fond of saying, "We're not trying to mortify the world's greatest golfer. We're trying to identify him." Twice now they have identified him as Andy North. At Oakland Hills outside Detroit, North won again this year, the same...
Ronald Reagan is two of America's favorite characters, the nice boy next door and the lovable, opinionated uncle, getting on but pretty damn lively for his age, cheerful, friendly, great storyteller (known to shade one to make a point), no big brain trust but plenty of common sense. Reagan comes from two quintessentially American places, the Middle Western small town and golden < California. The movie actor years, far from creating a stagy celebrity, seem to have merged role and reality--the good guy everybody (except maybe a few snobs and eggheads) wants to be, the American as seen...
...OPPOSITION TRIUMPHS! crowed the headlines of the antigovernment Paris daily Le Quotidien de Paris. The assessment was a shade presumptuous, perhaps, and a trifle premature, but not entirely misleading. In last week's elections for general councilors in roughly half of France's 3,848 cantons, or voting districts, not only had the conservative opposition won and the ruling Socialists lost, but the far right had won big and the far left had lost badly. In all, the established conservative coalition claimed 49% of the votes, while the maverick, ultrarightist National Front party scored an impressive 8.7%. By contrast...