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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people didn't seem to treat him with much dignity by calling him Mike. Replied DiSalle: "If your people had called you Mike, you might still be King." -By Roger Rosenblatt
...Sacramento and Washington, Weinberger loyally served his chiefs, accepting and ably defending spending programs much higher than he would have liked. He is remembered in Washington as a modest and unassuming man with a wide range of interests (he has been both a newspaper columnist and TV talk-show host in California) and something of an irreverent raconteur. He and his wife of 38 years, Jane, enjoy theater, opera and ballet; they have a son and a daughter. After leaving the Administration in 1975, Weinberger became a vice president and director of the Bechtel Group, an international construction and engineering...
...Wyoming coal fields, the pitch went, and use a loophole in the law to take a legitimate $150,000 deduction on Form 1040. Like many tax-shelter schemes, the offer attracted big names with big money: Basketball Stars Spencer Haywood and Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe, Candid Camera Host Allen Funt, Rock Singer Alice Cooper and Model Margaux Hemingway. The late Elvis Presley was the biggest customer of all: he sank $500,000 into the enterprise...
...that when all the allegedly bogus tax deductions peddled by the defendants are uncovered and toted up, the U.S. may be short between $500 million and $1 billion. That would make their swindles even bigger than the notorious Home-Stake oil-drilling fraud of 1974, which took in a host of celebrities from Bob Dylan to Jack Benny...
Hartman is probably the most effective host of a morning show since Garroway. A New Englander-he was raised in Pawtucket, R.I.-he is married to a former TV producer and has three children. Although at 6 ft. 5 hi., he is five inches taller than Robert Young, he brings to Good Morning the same concerned but reassuring bedside manner of Marcus Welby, M.D. "We were looking for someone who could elicit information, but who is easy to take in the morning," says Good Morning's executive producer, George Merlis. "That's not a time for human sandpaper...