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...entertainer usually seeks to entertain his companions too. On a campaign bus driving through a heavy snow in New Hampshire, he started out with a labored joke: "If anyone hears dogs barking, it's because the next leg will be done by sled." That led to a stream-of-consciousness monologue skipping erratically from dogs to other animals to firearms (Reagan has a small gun collection and does some target shooting, though he does not hunt) and concluding with a reading aloud from that day's installment of Doonesbury, one of Reagan's favorite comic strips. In a 1965 autobiography...
...public reaction to the show, nonetheless, has been good. Friedman 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...
...other canyon residents worked desperately to save their property. In Mandeville Canyon, Beverly Hills Psychologist Philip Flexo and his wife Pat shoveled day and night to divert a stream of mud and water from their $250,000 home. No matter what happened to the house, Flexo vowed not to leave the canyon permanently. Said he: "We moved here to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Despite the fires, rains, flood and muds, I won't move...
...wimpers, heavy breath--his Lear is pitiable, not tragic. Like the monstrous fur coat that drapes his frail frame for much of the evening, the role of Lear dwarfs Sellars. Rather than confront the character, Sellars flops to his knees, letting his words drool in an endless, barely audible stream. His tortured soul is senile...
...medicine. At Agabar, a sprawling relief camp housing 44,000 people, a huge field was cleared on which camp farmers could grow vegetables and other crops. The project has come to a standstill for lack of a few feet of pipe to carry water for irrigation from a nearby stream. Malaria is rampant because camp officials have been unable to persuade the inmates to fill in the water holes they dig in an adjacent stream bed; the puddles are perfect breeding spots for disease-carrying mosquitoes...