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...comparison, World's Fair is downright guarded. Doctorow calls it a novel. But the book reads like a memoir, and is unmistakably based on the author's early boyhood in the Bronx. The account begins with a bed wetting in the middle of the Depression and ends on the eve of World War II with a nine-year-old Edgar Altschuler burying a cardboard time capsule containing a Tom Mix decoder badge, his school report on the life of F.D.R., a harmonica and a pair of Tootsy Toy lead rocket ships, "to show I had foreseen the future...
...eve of the summit, the President and his men seem caught in an awkward minuet. Unlike earlier Presidents, Reagan is oblivious to the essential details of arms control. His advisers are either unwilling or unable to make him confront the difficult practical choices. Until they do, it is hard to see how they can offer the President much more than moral support when he faces off against Gorbachev in Geneva, or begin the hard business of translating superpower proposals into progress. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington
...aborted defections prompted Ronald Reagan to suggest that they might be a "maneuver" by the Soviet Union on the eve of the Geneva summit. "Coming as they do together," he told reporters, "you can't rule out the possibility that this might have been a deliberate ploy." But, Reagan candidly admitted, "there is no way we can prove or disprove it." As for Yurchenko, the President acknowledged that he was genuinely confounded. Said Reagan: "I think it's awfully easy for any American to be perplexed by anyone who could live in the United States and would prefer to live...
...member of the K.B.L., puts it, "has always looked at political contests in a military way." Only three weeks ago, Marcos denied firmly that he was contemplating any sudden election move. Many observers attribute his change of heart to pressure from the U.S. Said Marcos' wife Imelda on the eve of her return to Manila from a three-week trip to New York, Rome, Moscow and Tokyo: "I cannot understand why the U.S. is bullying and trying to isolate the President...
...widowed, retired career Army officer trying to locate some friends from the 1940s--Sylvia Miller and her sisters Ann and Eve. Sylvia and I were engaged but broke it off because of the war. When their mother Zina died on May 10, 1943, the girls lived in Manhattan. The last address I have, from 1948, is for a Sylvia Levitt at 601 W. 160th St. I tried writing and did other things but had no luck. If I can find the Millers, I will fly out to see them, hoping to renew our lives together. I know...