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DIED. Jay Silverheels, 62, the bass-voiced Mohawk Indian who played the masked man's sidekick Tonto after The Lone Ranger series moved from radio to TV in 1949; of complications from pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Born on a reservation in Canada, Silverheels spurred his horse Scout through all 221 of the video episodes made before filming stopped in 1957, helping his Kemo Sabe (commonly translated as "faithful friend") bring law-and-order to the early West. Silverheels never lost his love for horses (he took up harness racing at 56) or for the show, in which...
...airport terminal was a series of concrete blocks set on a butte overlooking Billings. Winds buffetted dead and splayed planes sitting on the cracked runway. A lone, bearded pilot inspected his single-engine Cessna 140. "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back East as fast as possible. May I have a ride...
...Republicans, too, are vague about their plans after Illinois. Crane "has not developed a strategy past" his home state, Cronin says, "but he has some of his best fund-raising capacity in Texas." Cronin says he expects Connally to drop out of the race before the May 3 Lone Star primary...
...chance, including apparently spur-of-the-moment remarks. "We all give prior thought to our ad libs," says CBS News Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, "but Dan even writes down the colloquialisms in his ad libs. He thinks them through, and they give his stuff a quality." Indeed, Rather's Lone Star tropes have become something of a trademark. Interviewing G.O.P. Presidential Contender George Bush last month on 60 Minutes, Rather remarked. "To use a Texas phrase, there are people who say that George Bush is a nice fellow but that he's all hat and no cattle." Translation: some...
Harberger would probably enhance HIID's ties to the Economics faculty. The vote to tenure Harberger within Economics was, reportedly, 18 to 1, with Stephen A. Marglin, professor of Economics, casting the lone dissenting vote. Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the department, was chairman of the search committee that recommended Harberger to Bok. Harberger is well-respected in his field as an accomplished and technically proficient economist. (This is not to say that the faculty of the Economics Department unanimously believe he is the right choice for the HIID. There are some prominent faculty members who privately oppose the appointment...