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postprimary phone call to Reagan: "Ron, congratulations, sir. You beat the hell out of me." How did Reagan do it? Bush's strategists were ready?after the vote?with a barrage of excuses. For one thing, the exhausted Bush flew home to Houston the weekend before the vote, while Reagan campaigned to the bitter end. Thus New Hampshire television viewers on Sunday and Monday saw pictures of Bush resting beside his Texas swimming pool while Reagan was doggedly plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed...
...says he has received a stream of letters, "on the whole about 90% favorable." In Britain, where the show is also being aired, one of the biggest fans is Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Last week a cartoon in Punch showed the P.M. and her Secretary of State for Industry, Sir Keith Joseph, bowing reverently before a TV set tuned in to Friedman...
...worsening outlook and the criticism have not fazed the government, which is determined to free Britain from 30 years of Keynesian economic theory and even more government involvement in the economy. In an interview with TIME'S Frank Melville, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe talked openly of the "almost frighteningly bad" economic outlook. But, he added, "people have still not appreciated the scale of difficulties. They have got to understand the length of time which will be necessary to achieve modest but firm steps in the right direction. Within four years, we should be able to point...
DIED. Graham Sutherland, 76, English artist; of cancer; in London. Sutherland described his tortured landscapes, which blended traditional English romanticism with nightmarish surrealism, as attempts to "paraphrase the intellectual and emotional essence of reality." Although a rendering of Sir Winston Churchill at 80 was publicly reviled by its subject ("It makes me look half-witted, which I ain't"), it was Sutherland's portraits of W. Somerset Maugham, Helena Rubinstein and other notables that brought him his greatest fame...
DIED. Joseph Banks Rhine, 84, father of experimental parapsychology in America and comer of the term extrasensory perception; in Hillsborough, N.C. Fascinated by psychic phenomena after hearing a 1922 lecture on the subject by Sherlock Holmes Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rhine later helped establish one of the nation's first parapsychology laboratories, at Duke University. His 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, documented laboratory-controlled demonstrations of clairvoyance and telepathy and made ESP a household term...