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...Even with a retinue of aides and Secret Service men in constant attendance, he retains most of his privacy. Reagan's ranch is very much his world of values. It gives him solitude, independence, and a sense of making one's own way-he stacks all that wood for a house heated solely by wood...
...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...
...Ronald Reagan, triumphant but a bit weary from the tax-cut victory, is looking forward to a few days of wood chopping and thinking on his California ranch. Then, if current schedules hold, by Aug. 15 he will make up his mind and soon thereafter tell the world that he wants America's new MX missiles to be air launched, ultimately from new and sophisticated planes that could stay aloft for days...
...givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth and two shocking-pink lamps...
Alter, an inveterate tinkerer, endeared himself in the mid-1950s to an earlier generation of Californians by introducing the first mass-produced balsa-wood and fiberglass surfboards. By 1960 he had become the world's leading supplier of the custom-made, polyure-thane-foam surfboard, which became a symbol of the California lifestyle...