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- HELP WANTED. Richard Darman usually comes alone to
- budget-planning sessions, partly because of his trouble hiring
- senior staffers to help run the Office of Management and Budget.
- Of six ideal job candidates, says a Darman associate, "Dick is
- probably not going to get more than one." While Darman is known
- as a brilliant but abrasive idea man, the reluctance to work
- with him stems mostly from his lack of managerial experience.
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- HOT TICKET. With a President-elect who claims Texas roots
- and hunts quail in the Lone Star State, the big event of the
- Washington Inauguration is the Black Tie and Boots Ball, a Jan.
- 21 bash thrown by the Texas State Society. With tickets scarce,
- one petitioner wanted birth certificates presented at the doors
- to exclude non-Texans. No chance: George Bush was born in
- Massachusetts.
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- ANTIAIRCRAFT ATTACK. Months before the unveiling of the
- pricey (about $500 million each) B-2 Stealth bomber, a top
- Pentagon official tried to shoot the plane down. At a June
- meeting of the secretive Defense Resources Board, Under
- Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Robert Costello
- recommended that the Pentagon kill the B-2 because of its rising
- price and quality problems. Costello's move failed, but he did
- get the Air Force's attention and persuaded the manufacturer to
- trim costs.
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- EUREKA! WE'LL TAKE IT! Once it's built in Simi Valley,
- Calif., scholars will flock to the Ronald Reagan Presidential
- Library to sift through state papers. But for those more
- interested in the Gipper's favorite belt buckle (THE BUCKAROO
- STOPS HERE) or his ceremonial desktop jar of jelly beans, there
- will be another presidential repository: Eureka College, in
- central Illinois. The outgoing Chief has donated more than 500
- such items to his alma mater.
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