Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...staff protect him. Aides are forever reminding him to get his dinner, to put on his overcoat, to make in public some interesting point he had discussed with them privately. However, relations between Reagan and his staff, for all its consideration and devotion, are strictly businesslike. None of his present aides address Reagan as anything but "Governor." For personal friendship, Reagan turns at home to old buddies from his movie days, among them William Hoiden and Jimmy Stewart, and a few of the California businessmen who first backed him for Governor 14 years...
...danger was clear, present and ominous: 90% of Chicago's firemen were on strike. How did the nation's second largest city (pop. 3.5 million) cope with the emergency? With ingenuity, a stub born we'11-get-by persistence, a small army of willing, if nastily trained substitutes - and just plain good luck. At week's end Chicago had survived 17 days of the strike without a major disaster...
...trying to find evidence to present to the world. We have already started to provide proof to the International Red Cross...
...know anything definite, but there have been no fewer than 2 million victims of the Vietnamese. If we don't succeed in stopping the Vietnamese, then extermination will occur. At present, our people are dying every day. In every village, five or six people die each...
...Cairo, meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar, 48, bounded up the steps of Abdin Palace to present his credentials-along with those of new envoys of two other nations-to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After an honor guard played the national anthems of Israel and Egypt, Sadat warmly shook hands with the bearded Israeli Ambassador and applauded the two countries' "determination to live together in peace and harmony." Ben Elissar both startled and pleased Sadat by asking his permission to place a wreath at a memorial to Egypt's unknown soldier...