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...Alighting from he U.S. Marine helicopter in sweltering 90° heat, Ronald Reagan strode accross the front yard of Dee's 500-acre hog farm in central Iowa and shook hands with his smiling host. The President headed for the farmyard, where he gingerly scratched the ear of Shank, an 800-lb. boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers, all of whom had voted for their guest in 1980. The President sipped lemonade, spooned into homemade peach...
...Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank of the gun. It is the perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols." Advertisements, which have run in such trendsheets as Interview and Town and Country, include one with a black-robed woman pointing the revolver at the reader...
...major competition. One of the five is Bryan's brother John Kean 83, whose performance in the Atlantic Coast Championships was the key to the Crimson victory over schools all along the eastern seaboard, closing the fall season with a flourish Horn also singles out as stars senior Craig Shank and Dave Woolsey and juniors Ethan Berkowitz and Hollis French...
...Terrence Shank, the Playhouse's artistic director, says that the problem of getting from here to there is the reason most companies, including his own, play only from Thursday through Sunday. "After people have fought the freeways to get home from work, they just don't want to go out on them again," he explains. Geography also precludes much camaraderie among theater professionals. "There is no sense of community here," complains Actor David Dukes, who just completed a run with Brooke Adams in Kevin Wade's Key Exchange at the Westwood Playhouse...
Perceptions, however, often lag behind reality. The idea of a California theater is gradually taking hold. "Los Angeles may be a long way from being a rival of New York," says Shank. "But it will be, it will...